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Download full textBrand, Betsy; Partee, Glenda; Kaufmann, Barbara; Wills, Joan – 2000
A series of five discussions with more than 50 people involved in the national school-to-work initiative created by the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 (STWOA) resulted in the following conclusions (among others): (1) Problems with the concept include a negative attitude toward the phrase "school-to-work," the complicated nature…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Hensley, Oliver D., Ed.; And Others – 1996
This book contains 30 chapters on the tech prep initiative in Texas: "The Identity of Tech Prep in Texas" (Tunstall); "A Snap-Shot of the Impact of the Tech Prep Initiative in the Governor's 24 Planning Regions" (Brown); "The Tech Prep Consortium Directors: The Architects for the Future of Texas" (Hensley et al.);…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Guidance, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1981
These congressional hearings contain testimony pertaining to the continuation of funding for the Young Adult Conservation Corps (YACC) and the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC). (Modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps, the YACC and the YCC are youth conservation programs that provide jobs to youth in such areas as tree planting, trail…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adolescents, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment)
Rodriguez, Esther M.; Ruppert, Sandra S. – 1996
This report is intended to provide a framework for state-level policy and planning in relationship to postsecondary education's role in workforce development. Underlying the report is a set of principles and priorities designed to reflect and shape current policy agendas, and which will address the needs of college-bound high school graduates,…
Descriptors: Career Education, College Bound Students, Education Work Relationship, Educational Planning
Allen, Ann; Kielbaso, Gloria; Dirkx, John M. – 1999
The internships and cooperative education experiences offered at Michigan's 15 public universities were examined. The study focused on the following items: the organization of internships and cooperative education experiences on university campuses; ways employers and students access such work-based learning opportunities; the numbers of students…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, Cooperative Education, Coordination
