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New Haven Public Schools, CT. – 1980
A career exploration program provided a group of twenty-five academically and/or socioeconomically handicapped New Haven, Connecticut, high school students with career guidance, classroom instruction, and exploratory work experience in area businesses and agencies. In their junior year participants were placed in an eight-week careers course…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Economically Disadvantaged
Huntington Beach Union High School District, CA. – 1977
The California Association of Work Experience Educators (CAWEE) Career Intern Program, funded by a federal grant, sought to demonstrate that experience-based career education was a viable and needed alternative to existing learning experiences. Selecting three schools from three districts in the greater Los Angeles area, the program maintained a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education
Peer reviewedTaylor, Alison; Lehmann, Wolfgang – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2002
Examination of old and new vocational initiatives in Alberta suggests that educators and employers support new school-to-work programs (Tech Prep; Registered Apprenticeships; Careers, the Next Generation). However, these programs are hampered by mixed policy messages; the resilience of existing practices; and lack of provincial resources,…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Download full textNational Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This evaluation of programs conducted in fiscal 1978 under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) consists of an overall picture of the 1978 YEDPA program experience and case studies of programs in 12 states. Findings and recommendations are presented concerning the implementation of YEDPA programs by Comprehensive Employment…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Awareness, Career Education, Case Studies
