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Download full textKerka, Sandra – 2000
Certificates are a valuable new currency in the information economy. Through a postbaccalaureate or postmaster's certificate, adults acquire market-demanded competencies in a short time. Many certificate-seekers are currently employed adults looking for focused, flexible, interdisciplinary, and highly relevant education opportunities. Certificate…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Distance Education
Naylor, Michele – 1988
The educational excellence movement has made an academic curriculum a high priority for all high school students, including the 40 percent who do not go on to college. The joint efforts approach to incorporating basic skills into the vocational curriculum is based on the following assumptions: (1) academic skills are embedded in vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
Walz, Garry R.; Leu, Jane – 1979
Surveys of influential counseling and student services professionals to obtain a broad range of perspectives regarding the future of guidance and student services were conducted by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Personnel Services (ERIC/CAPS) as a part of its ERIC Futures Issues Components (EFIC) project. The ERIC/CAPS Advisory…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Counseling, Counselor Role, Counselors
Riley, Cheryl L., Comp. – 1985
Emphasizing the ethics of conservation, this conference report compiles the following information submitted by conference presenters: (1) summaries of their presentations; (2) environmental ethics statements pertinent to their subjects; (3) activities; (4) favorite quotation; and (5) resources and references including books, journals,…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment), Curriculum Development
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 1999
According to the school-to-work (STW) program philosophy, STW efforts should be comprehensive and begin as early as preschool. At the elementary school level, the developmental process of career education begins with career awareness designed to broaden student knowledge about careers and connect academic learning to the workplace. Developing…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
Thiel, Kathleen K. – 1985
Because of the changing nature of work in society, higher levels of basic skills in reading, writing, and computation are needed in all occupational areas, whether or not they are related to high technology. Although research on the relationship between job performance and basic skills is not definitive, it is clear that it is more important for…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2002
Vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies are required partners in the one-stop system mandated by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA). The following features have long characterized VR: the primary goal of integrated competitive employment for persons with disabilities; state flexibility in VR systems, approaches, and structures; case…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation, Annotated Bibliographies, Articulation (Education)
