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Download full textBragg, Debra D.; Reger, William – 2002
The evolution of tech prep during the late 1990s was examined in a 4-year longitudinal study of 8 selected tech prep consortia since reauthorization of federal tech prep legislation in 1998. Cross-consortium results pertaining to curriculum reform, articulation, academic standards, and other essential elements of tech prep were examined along with…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Adjustment (to Environment), Administrator Attitudes
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1997
This glossary defines 67 terms that comprise a "common language" for those involved with the school-to-work approach to learning. Where possible, definitions are pulled from the School-to-Work Opportunities Act. Generally, most definitions are derived from the meanings the terms have acquired through use. The more complex definitions are…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Basic Skills, Career Academies, Career Awareness
Oblinger, Diana G., Ed.; Rush, Sean C., Ed. – 1998
This collection of 16 monographs centers around the theme the "future compatible campus," which is based on the premise that higher education will become a "connected campus" in a technology-enabled environment consisting of three components: connected learning, connected service to the community; and connected management. In…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Services, Computer Assisted Instruction
Finch, Curtis R.; Frantz, Nevin R.; Mooney, Marianne; Aneke, Norbert O. – 1997
This guide focuses on two interrelated areas of developing vocational education curricula: designing a thematic curriculum and using the "all aspects of the industry" approach when creating thematic curricula. The following are among the topics discussed in the guide's eight sections: principles of the thematic curriculum and its…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Apprenticeships, Career Academies, Class Activities
Abdal-Haqq, Ismat – 1998
This book examines U.S. progress in revitalizing teacher education and reforming K-12 education via Professional Development Schools (PDS's). The book discusses whether PDS's are: improving K-12 curriculum and instruction through faculty development; making substantive, positive differences in students' learning levels; addressing the needs of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College School Cooperation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Diversity (Student)
Steinberg, Adria – 1998
This book examines and illustrates the process of transforming school-to-work into real learning for real work. In chapter 1, guidelines are presented for designing project-based learning programs that are both academically rigorous and grounded in community and workplace realities, and the attempts of three very different high schools to develop…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis
Essex Community Coll., MD. – 1994
This document describes the Maryland Hospital Skills Enhancement Program, a collaborative effort of the Maryland Hospital Association, Essex Community College, and three Maryland hospitals that was designed to improve the literacy/basic education skills of hospital employees in 11 targeted service occupations. Two curriculum models were used:…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Business Communication
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. – 2000
This document reports on a 2-day symposium that brought together 180 representatives of Campus Alberta, which is a major initiative to make learning opportunities more flexible and responsive to learners' needs by focusing on such things as system coordination, course transferability, and ways to build on existing strengths and which now…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Lewis, Morgan V. – 2001
The major needs of career and technical education (CTE) in the year 2000 were assessed. The regional needs-sensing networks of the National Dissemination Center and the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education were used to obtain input from members of the following stakeholder groups: state-level liaisons; representatives of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, American Indians, Attitude Change, Basic Skills
Bruening, Thomas H.; Scanlon, Dennis C. – 2001
The status of career and technical education (CTE) teacher preparation programs was examined through a survey sent to all CTE program chairs and teacher educators with administrative responsibilities. The survey was also posted on the World Wide Web. Data were received from 227 programs from 164 institutions (response rate, 44%). Ten percent of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Admission Criteria, Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Misko, Josie – 2001
Linkages between Australia's vocational education and training (VET) and technical and further education (TAFE) sectors and industry were examined through 13 case studies involving a variety of industrial sectors in South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria. Special attention was paid to the processes established by school clusters to develop…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Apprenticeships, Case Studies, Competence
Klein, Hans E., Ed. – 2000
This book presents a selection of papers from the annual, international, interdisciplinary conference of the World Association for Case Method Research & Application. Papers are categorized into six areas: (1) "Case Studies and Research" (e.g., subjectivity as a source of insight in case study research, evolution of a teaching case,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Business Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Computer Uses in Education
European Training Foundation, Turin (Italy). – 1999
This document reports on a European Training Foundation Advisory Forum study of vocational education and training (VET) and retraining in the regions of the European Union (EU) that synthesized overviews of the general country situations regarding the territorial organization of the VET system and policy and relevant case studies concerning…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Case Studies, Cooperative Planning
Silverberg, Marsha; Haimson, Joshua; Hershey, Alan M. – 1998
A national evaluation of school-to-work (STW) implementation was conducted by collecting data on four broad issues: states' efforts to promote the changes envisioned by the School to Work Opportunities Act (STWOA); impacts of local STW partnerships on school and workplace opportunities available to students and creation of coherent STW systems;…
Descriptors: Career Development, Case Studies, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship
Stevens, David W. – 2001
The passage of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998 (Perkins III) and the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) marked a new era in the performance accountability partnership among the states, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Evaluation of vocational education…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Data Collection, Definitions
