The booklet opens with a discussion of the four topics used for the 1972-73 Science Research Associates Newsletter: The Concept of Career Education; The Counselor and Career Education; Questions Teachers Ask about Career Education; and The Future of Career Education. The introduction was written: to comment, in retrospect, on how the career…

Discusses trends in career education shown in three years of membership surveys of the National Career Education Leaders' Communication Network. Trends covered include (1) health of the career education movement, (2) need to replace the term "career education," (3) possible new names, (4) funding, and (5) definition of career education.…

Discusses five key concepts of career-education movement and their implications for education reform: Work, students and teachers as workers, infusion, collaboration, and career development. Also discusses studies evaluating the effectiveness of career-education programs. (PKP)

As technology continues to increase the complexity of our occupational society and relationships between education and work become closer and closer, it becomes necessary to create for youth a world in which educational institutions and the business/industrial community collaborate to provide an environment, a set of learning experiences, and a…

The current status of career education can be described at local, state, and national levels. Although 5,000 of the 17,000 school districts in the U.S. have initiated some kind of career education effort, fewer than 500 have received federal funds. The quantity of effort expended at the local school district level has exceeded the quality by a…

Career education for minority and low-income persons has, to date, been generally a matter of overpromise and underdelivery. To build positively demands that we be willing to look realistically at both promises and problems in three categories: conceptual assumptions of career education; process assumptions of career development; and programmmatic…

The current status of career education combines continued interest and enthusiasm with problems and shortcomings relating to implementation, quantity and quality of programs, attitudes, and the need for collaboration. Four major attitudinal problems currently face career education. The problem of costs arises from those who think anything…

The author briefly justifies work on a book entitled "Career Education for Gifted and Talented Students" and comments on four problems in the delivery of effective career education to the gifted and talented. Listed among reasons for choosing the book's topic is that career education is for all individuals, including the gifted and talented.…

The paper explains the career education concept and considers its application to gifted and talented students. (CL)

This article projects costs for 12 proposed educational reforms, and advises that career education join forces with both the process- and structure-oriented reform efforts if meaningful changes are to be made. (JB)

Implications of career education for blind and visually impaired students focus on providing general employability skills and fusing the career development process and the teaching/learning process into the curriculum. (Author/CL)

Explains why career education is needed, how it is being implemented, the extent to which it has produced evidence of its worth, and suggests ways in which parents can become involved. (JOW)

Examines the implications of career education against the goals of making work possible, meaningful, and satisfying. (Editor)

Ways in which career education and vocational education have supported each other the past 10 years are examined, along with major ways in which career education serves to enhance vocational education. The implications of career education/vocational education relationships for American education in the 1980s are also examined. (CT)