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Watson, Bernardine; Jaffe, Natalie – 1990
Providing disadvantaged youth with the training to continue their education or to obtain meaningful, long-term employment has been hampered by lack of funding, inability to meet the multiple needs of at-risk youth, and the difficulty of recruiting at-risk youth to participate in programs. This report describes and recommends nine employment…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs, Federal Programs
Valentine, Rob; And Others – 1985
Work-based projects are learning materials that are designed to match the broad-based preparation for working life that the Youth Training Scheme (YTS) aims to provide in Great Britain. YTS aims to develop a work force that is competent and flexible, with the capacity to adapt its skills to new and changing types of employment. This guide…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials
Bidwell, Sheri E. – 1997
This guide was developed for Ohio's Work SITE Learning Model, a national demonstration project for the integration of academic and vocational learning. The guide is designed to assist schools in conducting effective teacher worksite externship programs that allow teachers to observe workplace practices in order to glean information about academic…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Faculty Development
Center for Occupational Research and Development, Inc., Waco, TX. – 1996
This booklet describes the success of tech prep under the federal school-to-work (STW) initiative and provides case studies showing how schools and businesses are using tech prep to create the world's best work force for the new millennium. The first section discusses the payoff from STW, and the second section describes tech prep. Section 3…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship
Test, David W.; And Others – 1987
The Competitive Employment through Vocational Experience (CETVE) Project was a 2-year, federally funded model transitional program for secondary-level handicapped students. The model involved use of competitive work experience to provide severely vocationally handicapped students with a work history prior to graduation. CETVE students were…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Lynch, Robert E. – 1980
Studies show that 9 out of 10 migrant students do not complete their high school education. To identify the factors contributing to this high dropout rate, 350 migrant youths were surveyed to assess what they viewed as "good" programs and why they had dropped out of school. Most respondents noted some sort of sports activity as what they liked…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention
Fuller, Jack W., Ed.; Whealon, Terry O., Ed. – 1979
Intended for use by students, professional career counselors, and teachers, this book contains a selection of writings by many notable authorities and practitioners of career education in the United States. Its fifty-four articles present background information, philosophical and practical problems, programs suitable for adaptation, and the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Anthologies, Articulation (Education), Career Development
Herzog, Jane – 1981
This manual has been developed to assist prime sponsors, private industry councils, community-based organizations and other youth serving agencies in planning, designing, and implementing vocational exploration activities. The information, forms, and curriculum samples in the manual are a collection of the efforts of 14 program operators involved…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration, Demonstration Programs
Smith, Thomas J.; And Others – 1988
This guide to youth unemployment problems is based on the belief that a comprehensive system of program initiatives offers the best solutions. The principal focus is on vocationally at-risk youth. The first chapter defines and describes the target group, and outlines needs and appropriate responses. The second section describes the following eight…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged
Merton, Bryan – 1998
This document includes materials from and about Skilled!, a national demonstration project that was implemented in 10 areas of England in partnership with local authority youth services and further education colleges to provide educational opportunities for disaffected and underachieving young people aged 16 and over. The first half of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Holzkamper, Charlot – 1982
Designed for use in high school and adult education programs, this manual was developed to help marketing and distributive education teachers to develop or upgrade community/work-based programs; and to assist teachers who operate these programs to use legal operational practices and to meet the occupational needs of their students and communities.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Workforce Strategy Center, Brooklyn, NY. – 2000
Focus of this guide is a project to identify best practices and programs in preparing foster care youth for career opportunities and economic self-sufficiency. Foster care program context is described as an economy characterized by jobs clustering into two categories (high wage positions with a continuing career pathway and low wage entry-level…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Development
Theis, Audrey; Creticos, Peter; McMahon, Amanda – 2000
Intended to help business-led coalitions master the seven principles of success in education and workforce development, this primer begins with a discussion of the problems stemming from the structural transition underway in the U.S. economy, an overview of the 21st century workforce system, and the potential role of business-led coalitions in…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Competency Based Education, Definitions, Demonstration Programs
Tyson, Diane F. – 1998
This document contains materials about and from the School-to-Work for Lancaster County Adults program. This program was a special demonstration project designed to develop a school-to-work (STW) model for adult learners. In an alternative high school setting, the program combined academic instruction, career exploration and planning, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Basic Skills, Career Exploration
Vocational Improvement Practices. Promising Practices in Connecticut Vocational and Adult Education.
Connecticut State Board of Education, Hartford. – 1985
This compendium provides information concerning promising methods and techniques in vocational and adult education in Connecticut during the 1984-85 school year. It is targeted at educators who wish to improve their own vocational and adult education programs and services. Practices described in the document were selected by a panel of educators…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Animal Husbandry
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