Students in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, are leaving the school to spend as much as a full semester learning about the adult world. (Author)

The Card Connection: Business for Children project gives East Harlem elementary school children an understanding of economics. This greeting card business teaches math and communication skills, interview techniques, basic economics concepts, and salesmanship. Requirements include a minimal initial investment for materials and supplies, an…

Denmark's informal residential schools provide practical work experiences in humanistic, innovative settings. (Author)

Describes programs in several states that seek to ease students' transition to postsecondary education and careers by providing them with a range of learning options and ever-widening circles of experience that move them away from school. These programs tailor experiences and learning objectives to students' developmental levels and interests.…

Installation and operation of the cluster approach in career education at the junior high school level provide an opportunity for these students to have a curriculum which is meaningful, realistic, and viable. (Author)

Provides what the author calls a "meta-analysis" of experience-based career education programs. (Author/JM)

Through a formal program offering in-school jobs to students who want or need them, kids at a small-town Oregon middle school can experience various work conditions and apply abstract knowledge to practical problems. As science aides, playground assistants, and groundskeepers, students earn tokens that can be spent for parties, field trips, school…

The EBCE task is to develop within three to five years a body of experience and research data that would document the feasibility of an entire alternative secondary education system, harnessed to the career education ideal and drawing its curriculum from the life of the adult community. (Authors)

Examples and sources of information about public service alliances between businesses and school systems that also serve the private sector's self-interests. (MLF)