TWO APPROACHES WERE USED IN STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (NYC) ON MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN -- (1) IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL OPERATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN ITS WORK FLOW, AND (2) IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIFIC PROBLEMS IN THE YOUTH AND POVERTY AREAS (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND ACHIEVEMENT, JUVENILE DELINQUENCY,…

The study described here was undertaken to develop a comprehensive description of corrections education programs in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) and to make recommendations regarding their purposes and operations including their relation to other Federal corrections programs. Presentation is in five sections: An overview…

Progress toward four stated objectives in a K-12 career education project was determined after examining the field testing results of students, interviews, and data analysis. Satisfactory progress was made toward objective 1: revising, expanding, and refining two computer retrieval career education units. On a developer questionnaire teachers…

A project is reported and evaluated which provided experience-based career education opportunities for grades 9 and 10 in Minot, North Dakota, through Career Education PLUS (Planning, Learning, Understanding, Succeeding), an alternative education program. Focus of the evaluation is on the project objectives: to provide students with (1) training…

A study of high school work experience programs was designed to explore the work environment in regard to employer policies, practices, processes and program ingredients to gauge their impact on high school student workers during the school-to-work transition. Two work experience programs were analyzed (North Terrytown, New York, and in Newark,…

An overview of cooperation between CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) and vocational education is presented in this speech, including a look at data on legislation, history, and funding sources. In light of CETA legislation's specificity on how local sponsors are to work with vocational educators, the speech gives excerpts and…

Specific programmatic segments of career education developed at four career education pilot sites in Pennsylvania--Ebensburg, Crawford County, Philadelphia, and McKeesport--were evaluated for the period June 1973 to September 1974. Evaluation was conducted through questionnaires, interviews, and observation. The Ebensburg project, conducted at a…

Computer-assisted instructional (CAI) lessons were incorporated as instructional support for a one-semester course in occupational information for 122 eighth graders at a selected middle school in the Dallas, Texas, Independent School District to field-test five modules (fifteen color videotapes and fifteen CAI lessons) focusing on career…

An evaluation of the Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) Program of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCEBCE) for summer, 1977, was conducted to provide preliminary information for the three-year program effort to use in program planning and decision making for the 1977-78 school year. DCEBCE was evaluated using the Context, Input,…

An evaluation was conducted on the first year operations (academic 1976-77) of an experienced based career education (EBCE) project designed for tenth grade students from Weber County School District (Utah) and ninth and tenth grade students from Morgan County School District (Utah). Students were pre- and posttested in the areas of career skills,…

A consortium effort in Florida was evaluated for the period July 1, 1974 through June 30, 1977. Implemented in Florida's Sarasota County and Manatee County school districts, Manatee Junior College, and the University of South Florida, the project included three components (guidance, curriculum, and placement/follow-up), each functioning at four…

This study discusses the contention that since vocational education costs more per pupil on the average than academic or general education, it should yield greater benefits to its students. Focus is on examining pitfalls inherent in this approach/contention and synthesizing recent research materials which reflect the benefits of vocational…

This third-party evaluation report, presented in six sections, begins with an introductory section on the procedures used to evaluate the Bilingual Human Services Educational Consortium. (The consortium, a one-year college level program, prepares underemployed and unemployed Franco-Americans for paraprofessional human service jobs.) Also described…

Eleven projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of education innovations, are sketched in this booklet of exemplary and innovative school programs in Kentucky. Programs are categorized according to regions, and focus on: regional…

The 3-year exemplary project whose overall objective was the establishment of comprehensive career-centered activities for grades 1 through 12, is described in this report. The introductory section presents a summary of the project which outlines goals and objectives and procedures (administrative structure, developing community support, awareness…