State and local surveys indicate that most current legislative provisions designed to encourage joint planning and program coordination of vocational education, employment, and training programs have been implemented. Coordination seems better under the Job Training Partnership Act than it was under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.…

A study examined the extent of joint planning and coordination between vocational education and private sector Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs during 1986. Data were collected from the following sources: mail surveys of staff in the state agencies responsible for administering the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act and JTPA (72…

A telephone survey of 610 service delivery areas (SDAs) and a mail survey of a national sample of 983 postsecondary institutions were conducted to assess the status of local-level coordination between vocational education and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs. Ninety-seven percent of the SDAs were engaged in some type of collaborative…

This study was conducted to describe the work experience being obtained by high school students and to relate that to educational and labor market outcomes. A special emphasis of the study was to determine if school supervision or monitoring has any apparent influence on the nature or outcomes of work experience. Data for the study were obtained…

Work experience programs in secondary schools were examined to determine the costs and benefits associated with them. Data on students in these programs were compared with data on students with nonschool-supervised jobs and students with no jobs. Characteristics and experiences of current and former students were compared. A random sample was…