Activity learning strongly complements the idea of career education. Both have particular application to the high school, which is the most likely arena of educational change for the balance of this decade. In career education itself, school-based models are being tested in six cities and some 85,000 children are now participating in at least some…

Many in higher education view career education as a threat. However, career education adds to the sum of the educational parts and doesn't threaten established curricula. Rather, it seeks to give conventional offerings purpose and meaning at a time when young people are searching for purpose and meaning. (MW)

Author suggested that the expense and length of a college education could be lessened through the use of Advanced Placement. (Editor/RK)

This speech presents educational accountability as the unending search for ways in which educational institutions can better serve both students and society. In the face of financial cutbacks, it is suggested that institutional self-examination is in order. Redefinition of end goals with far greater rigor and realism is essential. Following an…

The Assistant Secretary for Education discusses in this speech what the Federal Government, under the auspices of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, has done and is doing to meet the special educational needs of American Indians in the United States. The Office of Education has been given broad new authority and commands by the…

Because the community college is young, unencumbered by years of tradition, and clearly on the front line of educational reform, it has a unique opportunity to assume a leadership role in a number of ways. First, the 2-year institutions should initiate a more intensive dialogue with senior colleges and universities with regard to the transfer of…

For most of us, a lot of hard work and simple luck was involved in our career preparation and job placement. There should be a better way, a way that is planned and available to all. This career plan should be an integral part of the educational system, from career awareness for elementary grade youngsters to either marketable skills or…

Today's harsh economy gives a spirit of urgency to the call for an effective harmonizing of occupational development with academic learning. Whether we as teachers or administrators are in agreement or not, the evidence is very clear that our students expect their college years to yield occupational as well as academic outcomes. It is time that we…

Included in this collection are speeches presented on the following occasions: (1) the NAM Joint Policy Committee Conference, Washington, D.C., November 11, 1971, (2) the Third Annual Conference of the Pennsylvania Personnel and Guidance Association, Pittsburgh, November 15, 1971, and (3) the Annual Convention of The American Vocational…

Equality of opportunity, a very important component of the career education rationale, mandates that career education must apply uniformly to all. Many startling changes must be made in our educational, social, and economic systems; and career education is the central instrument for the voluntary renewal of education. The counselor's role in this…

Career education combines vocational, general, and college-preparatory education into a curriculum designed to provide educational experiences that will prepare an individual for economic independence, personal fulfillment, and an appreciation for the dignity of work. Career education will be integrated in the early school years, beginning with…

The career education concept should replace vocational education so that more of the American people can receive the benefits that are being provided students in vocational education. It is necessary to begin to construct a sound, systematized relationship between education and work, a system which will make it standard practice to teach every…

Symptoms of the need for substantial change in post secondary and higher education are evident. Enrollments are down, the dropout rate among first and second year students remain high, and there is the issue of over-qualification. Of even more concern than over-qualification is under-qualification, as evidenced by the 2.5 million young people who…

The past decade has been a time of grim realization of the shortcomings of education and especially its resistance to internal reform, resulting in the erosion of the confidence of the people. Marland called his embryonic concept of reform career education, and it had as its birthplace the community junior college which denied the need to…

The implications for American education today in reforms initiated at the Federal level in finance, research, curriculum, accountability, and administration were discussed by the U. S. Commissioner of Education. The financial reforms focus on revenue sharing. In the research area, Commissioner Marland discusses the proposed National Institute of…