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Download full textRosen, Rachel; Dalporto, Hannah – MDRC, 2020
Modern high school career and technical education (CTE) programs are often referred to as "high-quality CTE," and they are designed to help students build career skills and earn credentials through sequenced coursework, postsecondary credit acquisition, and exposure to relevant work-based learning experiences. These kinds of programs,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Technical Education, High School Students, Workplace Learning
Brand, Betsy; Valent, Andrew; Browning, Andrea – College and Career Readiness and Success Center, 2013
If educators and policymakers are to make good on the national commitment to graduate more students from high school prepared to face postsecondary challenges, schools must continue to improve career technical education (CTE), ensuring that students have access to high-quality pathways to success. This brief provides an overview of the evolution…
Descriptors: Career Education, Technical Education, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Peer reviewedSpitzer, Dorothy; Levinson, Edward M. – School Psychology Review, 1988
Vocational interest assessment for handicapped students is discussed, and 10 popular vocational interest inventories for handicapped and non-handicapped individuals are reviewed. Recommendations for the use of interest inventories by school psychologists are made. Issues relating to the selection and interpretation of interest inventories are…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Interest Inventories
Cobb, R. Brian – PRISE Reporter, 1987
This newsletter issue focuses on educating the handicapped to enter the world of work. Topics addressed include legislation, assessment of vocational education programs, transitional services, employment programs, and job separation. The feature article describes provisions of the 1984 Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act (Public Law 98-524),…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Planning, Computer Software Reviews
Drier, Harry N.; Gysbers, Norman – 1988
Guidance has been and continues to be a major economic and social program that assists individuals of all ages and circumstances in dealing effectively with their lifelong development, including occupational choice and job adjustment. Comprehensive programs of guidance and counseling serve as the link between providing occupational training and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Comprehensive Guidance, Counseling Objectives
Markowicz, Arlene, Ed.; And Others – NAB Clearinghouse Quarterly, 1985
This issue focuses on helping disabled individuals to find and keep jobs. An overview discusses the corporate response to employment of the disabled, partnerships between industry and rehabilitation, serving disabled persons under the Job Training Partnership Act, and educating students with disabilities. Eleven "Bulletins" offer…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Counseling, Career Education
North Texas Univ., Denton. – 1988
A project assessed current counseling activities, services, and programs in grades 7 and 8 that address vocational interest and aptitude assessment for handicapped and disadvantaged students. Staff developed a description of vocational assessment instruments available to public schools and a guide for interpreting and using vocational assessment…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Compliance (Legal)
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. Div. of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1988
The Missouri state plan for vocational education for 1989-1990 calls for increasing the rate and quality of the participation of targeted populations (handicapped, disadvantaged, adults, single parents/homemakers, persons seeking job training in occupations that are nontraditional for their gender, and incarcerated persons) at appropriate…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Counseling, Career Education, Compliance (Legal)
Davis, Jean Cary; Dickens, Ben – 1986
This guide is intended to assist instructors and administrators in improving the vocational education of special needs students by providing supplemental services that have been authorized by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. Discussed in a section on the implications of the act for disadvantaged and handicapped students are…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Correctional Education, Counseling Techniques
Displaced Homemakers Network, Washington, DC. – 1985
This guide is intended to familiarize displaced homemakers with the provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. The first part of the guide details the act's funding for the following areas: sex equity coordinator, single parents and homemakers, sex bias and stereotyping, adult training and retraining, employment…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advocacy, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
New Jersey State Council on Vocational Education, Trenton. – 1993
A biennial evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of New Jersey's vocational education delivery systems in meeting Perkins Act purposes and their coordination with the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) resulted in 19 recommendations. Respondents to a survey of country vocational districts, JTPA service delivery areas, and community…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance
Colorado State Community Coll. and Occupational Education System, Denver. – 1991
This annual performance report describes accomplishments achieved in Colorado through funding from the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. Four sections focus on four categories of initiatives. Section I addresses enhancement of services to students through the basic state grant under Title II, Part A. Vocational education opportunities are…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling, Community Organizations, Curriculum Development
Gregory, Vikki – 1990
Midlife and older women are at an economic disadvantage relative to their male counterparts and younger women. Older women should be served by the nation's employment, training, and vocational programs. Interviews with participants and operators of employment and training programs identified six program components needed to serve older women: (1)…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Counseling, Change Strategies, Cooperative Programs
