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Kempner, Ken; Warford, Laurance – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2009
Although there is no single program or idea that will fix the entire American educational system, findings from the national demonstration project College and Career Transitions Initiative (CCTI) demonstrate considerable promise of the role pathways can play in helping students find their way through education to work and on to their careers.…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Academic Education, Transitional Programs, Community Colleges
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
This publication is a product of the knowledge development effort implemented under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. It is the second volume of an assessment of the Job Corps, which found that, overall, the Job Corps experience of training young men and women for employment has been beneficial to society, although there…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs
Fraleigh, Virginia A. – 1977
A description of the project, its development process, evaluation results, and exportability are included in this overview of WORK-ED (World of Related Knowledge and Educational Development), a program to provide ninth grade students both basic skills in communication and exposure to twelve career clusters. Introductory sections describe the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Communication Skills, Demonstration Programs
DiLego, Pasquale – 1976
Covering the Burlington school district's career education project for its first year from July 1975 through June 1976, the report describes a secondary program career education program emphasizing a combination of career clusters with student development plans. A sample population of 300 students from grades 7, 9, and 11 kept career folders and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Southern Maryland Educational Consortium, La Plata. – 1995
The Southern Maryland Educational Consortium's Tech Prep Model Demonstration project is described in this final report. The consortium members are Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's county school districts and Charles County Community College in southern Maryland. The project is based on a 4 + 2 model in which ninth-grade students develop career…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Case Studies, College School Cooperation
Beaverton School District 48, OR. – 1984
A model high school accounting cluster program was planned, developed, implemented, and evaluated in the Beaverton, Oregon, school district. The curriculum was developed with the help of representatives from the accounting occupations in the Portland metropolitan area. Through management interviews, identification of on-the job requirements, and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Bookkeeping, Computer Oriented Programs, Course Content
Watertown Independent School District 1, SD. – 1977
Objectives of the Watertown, South Dakota, exemplary experienced based career education project are to involve the community in the educational process of participants, who will be aided (1) in improving their self-concept, their relationships with others, and their basic skills; (2) in eliminating sex role stereotyping; (3) in understanding job…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Career Choice
Meriden Public Schools, CT. – 1975
A two-year career education exemplary project conducted in the middle schools and grade nine in Meridian, Connecticut, was evaluated. Objectives of the program had included providing hands-on experience in various job clusters to the students, expanding the work of guidance counselors in career education, providing teacher inservice training, and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Career Awareness, Career Education
Hanisch, Ronald M.; And Others – 1978
An assessment team of three industrial arts educators was sent to Utah to evaluate the Industrial Arts Career Exploration (IACE) program. Since its inception in 1975, the program has been implemented in thirty-eight of the state's middle and junior high schools. The major objectives of IACE are to reorient and expand the curriculum of the…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Career Education, Career Exploration, Communications
Utah State Board of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1976
This is a project report on Utah's plans to effect "incremental improvements" in career education implementation in seven school districts. Project objectives are formulated as follow: effect incremental improvements in attendance area cones, strengthen career education leadership capabilities, develop staff competence to diffuse the…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Coloma Community Schools, MI. – 1977
This report presents an overview of Project CDCC (Career Development Centered Curriculum), a curriculum-based career development program for students in grades K-6. The program's purpose, approach, definitions, and model are described. The approach stresses integrating career awareness with existing subject matter as well as building into the…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Philadelphia School District, PA. Div. of Career Education. – 1976
The planning and implementation of the Comprehensive Career Education Model for grades K-14 (a 3-year project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is described. (The project's five major objectives were (1) to increase self-awareness of pupils by providing insight into their skills, potentials, and abilities which relate to the world of work, (2) to…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education
Upton, Anne L.; Barrett, Samuel L. – 1978
Three California State Department units (vocational education, pupil personnel services, and career education) and two school districts (Fremont Unified and Huntington Beach Union High) established a consortium to develop demonstration sites for model career development and vocational preparation systems and staff development programs. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Development