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Download full textNew Hampshire State Dept. of Education, Concord. – 1999
Career development education prepares students to make informed career decisions through awareness and understanding of individual qualities that contribute to success on the job, the ability to use employment data and other resources to support decision making, and an awareness of the training and postsecondary options available for success. In…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Career Guidance, Children
Hufziger, Lynne – 1989
This document presents South Carolina's Comprehensive Career Guidance Program for kindergarten through grade 12. The model presented provides a framework for local districts to use in evolving a program to meet the specific career development needs of their district's students. It attempts to organize, expand, and extend competency-based career…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Guidance, Comprehensive Guidance, Curriculum Guides
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1990
This report contains amendments to H.R. 4089, the "Veterans Educational and Vocational Counseling Amendments of 1990," which would amend Title 38, U.S. Code, with respect to educational and vocational counseling for veterans. The report describes major provisions, discusses the background of the bill, and provides a section-by-section…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, CA. – 1985
This report provides findings and recommendations on youth unemployment that were presented at a public hearing conducted by the Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations. First, the report summarizes the testimonies of 20 youth from schools, community based organizations (CBO's), and job training programs who described their difficulties in…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
This document is a transcript of hearings on the reauthorization of the Vocational Education Act of 1963. The specific focus of the hearings was vocational guidance and counseling, as specified in H.R. 4974, the Vocational Guidance Act of 1981. Testimony was given by Jeffrey Drake, coordinator of career development in Flint, Michigan; Norman C.…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counseling Effectiveness, Disadvantaged
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1987
This guide is designed to assist local educational agencies in the design, development, implementation, operation, and administration of vocational-technical education programs in Michigan. All aspects of this document are designed to concur with the Michigan State Plan for Vocational Education as well as the Michigan School Code and subsequent…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Course Content, Disabilities, Educational Planning
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 is reproduced in its entirety. The act, public law 95-523, is designed to translate into practical reality the right of all Americans to full opportunity for useful paid employment at fair compensation rates; to assert the federal government's responsibility to use all programs and policies…
Descriptors: Adults, Budgeting, Career Guidance, Economic Factors
Cunanan, Esmeralda S.; Maddy-Bernstein, Carolyn – Office of Special Populations Brief, 1995
The Perkins Act of 1990 and the School to Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) of 1994 both contain explicit provisions regarding career guidance and counseling provisions for special populations. The Perkins Act sets the direction for state and local agencies as they develop vocational and applied education programs to equip youth and adults with the…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Counseling Services
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1980
This document contains the Alabama state plan for the administration and implementation of career education in kindergarten through postsecondary grades for 1978-83. Following 35 pages of introductory materials (including a state plan profile), the 16-section state plan is presented. Section 1 contains the state's career education conceptual base…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Disabilities, Educational Needs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1983
This document contains four Congressional hearings on H.R. 4164, the Vocational-Technical Education Act of 1983, to strengthen and expand the economic base of the Nation, develop human resources, reduce structural unemployment, increase productivity, and strengthen the Nation's defense capabilities by assisting the States to expand, improve, and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Cooperative Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1984
This is the record of two congressional hearings on H.R. 4164, the Vocational-Technical Education Act of 1983, and H.R. 4793, the Vocational Education Consolidation Act of 1984. Witnesses provided recommendations, reactions, ideas for improvements, and suggestions relating to these bills. Testimony includes statements, prepared statements,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Cooperative Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House. – 1994
This conference report outlines the proposed House of Representatives and Senate compromise regarding disputed provisions in the proposed School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. First, Congress' findings regarding the education needs of noncollege-bound students, youth employment, work-based learning, and educational attainment in the United…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Education Work Relationship
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1997
This congressional report contains testimony examining the status of vocational assistance and its role in work force development and the Clinton Administration's views on reforming the federal investment in vocational education. Testimony was provided by two U.S. senators (James M. Jeffords, Vermont; Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts) and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science. – 2002
This report presents the testimony and submissions given at a field hearing on workforce training in Michigan. Four expert witness statements follow introductory comments from Vernon J. Ehlers and James A. Barcia, United States Congressmen from Michigan. The statement of Bruce P. Mehlman, the assistant secretary of commerce, assesses the ability…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Guidance, Career Planning, Continuing Education
