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Hauge, Kimberly – National Governors Association, 2018
States increasingly need a more highly skilled workforce to meet the requirements of businesses, keep up with a rapidly changing economy and accelerate growth that leads to economic opportunity for workers and families. As a result, governors recognize that their role is to bring together education, workforce and economic development as talent…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Labor Needs, State Action, State Policy
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Goho, James; Rew, David – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2009
The major purpose of cooperative education is to prepare students for the workplace by combining academic education with practical experience to develop employment competencies. This research compared employment outcomes and employment earnings for graduates from cooperative education programs with graduates from non-cooperative programs at a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Cooperative Education, College Outcomes Assessment
Mann, Dale – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
Outlines the gains made to date from school/business partnerships and analyzes limits of such partnerships in relation to individual school needs, reform efforts, and costs. Speculates about the effect of involving private vendors in the work of education. (CJH)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Force Development
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Wilson, James W. – Journal of Cooperative Education, 1984
Examines why joint ventures are formed and discusses a number of factors related to the success of such interaction. Focus is on four factors: goal compatibility, boundary-spanning structures and processes, locus of need satisfaction, and organizational incentives. (CT)
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Institutional Cooperation
Sacramento County Probation Dept., Sacramento, CA. – 1994
JurisLIT was a literacy training effort operated jointly by the Sacramento County Probation Department, the Sacramento County Office of Education, the Los Rios Community College District, and the Superior and Municipal Courts of Sacramento County from March 1990 to March 1994. The program required selected probationers aged 18-30 to participate in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, Correctional Rehabilitation, Criminals
Leto, Lyn – 1998
A program was conducted to implement a "regular high school" adult diploma program built on a school-to-work philosophy and operated through a two-county, multidistrict lifelong learning consortium in Pennsylvania. The project also provided a rural, cooperative program model ready for replication in other areas in order to provide…
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, High School Equivalency Programs
Thompson, Barry; Larson, Catherine; Thomas, Raelene – 1999
Some highlights included in the 1999 Annual Report of the Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (IDVR) are the following: (1) an all-time record number of people were served (10,363), and 1,442 people were rehabilitated and entered employment, close to the 1998 record; (2) a collaborative effort with the Division of Human Resources was…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Deafness, Education Work Relationship, Migrants
Centerfocus, 1998
Community partnerships can increase the effectiveness of school-to-work programs. By working together, each partner organization can work smarter, share important information, build a collective set of resources, and keep its focus on its clients, the youth. Another issue pertaining to the creation of partnerships is change and why businesses…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Corporate Support, Education Work Relationship
Ramsay, William R. – Alternative Higher Education: The Journal of Nontraditional Studies, 1979
Ideas for enhancing learning from work experience are described, including work-learning progressions, learning descriptions, project development, linking work experience and courses, and educational debriefing. The importance of combining an effective work experience with other parts of the educational program is emphasized. (Author/SF)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Education Work Relationship, Educational Quality
Education for Employment Update Quarterly Newsletter, 1989
This packet contains four quarterly newsletters covering Summer 1988-Spring 1989, published by the Dane County, Wisconsin, Education for Employment project. The newsletters contain various articles about the Education for Employment project, including reports on successful school-business partnership programs and notices of upcoming…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
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NIDRR Consensus Statement, 1994
This consensus statement was the result of a conference on school-to-work transition for youths with disabilities which brought together service providers, consumers, family members, researchers, and others. Consensus was reached on several principles, organized around six broad areas: (1) what school-to-work transition for this population is and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Definitions, Disabilities
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Shepherd, Ifan D. H. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1998
Questions some of the assumptions and practices defining most work experience programs in geography. Maintains that most workplaces operate within such a specific function that they limit the acquisition of generic skills. Notes that the very notion of transferable skills has never really been tested. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Assessment, Educational Benefits
Sanford Public Schools, ME. – 1992
An evaluation was conducted of the workplace literacy program developed through a partnership among the Sanford (Maine) Public Schools and three employers. During the project, 859 employees were recruited, tested, evaluated, and counseled, with 340 receiving extensive evaluation and counseling and an Individual Education Plan (IEP). Through…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
Northeast Texas Community Coll., Mount Pleasant. – 1992
The Northeast Texas Workplace Partnership Program developed curriculum and training materials based on the literacy requirements of the workplace for two different industries in northeast Texas--Lone Star Steel Company and Pilgrim's Pride Industries. Three advisory committees were established to involve the community, education, and business and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Div. of Public Accountability. – 1986
This report describes 38 model school-business partnerships that are being conducted in South Carolina. The 38 reports were gathered from 24 school districts and 3 statewide projects. Criteria for selection were that the partnerships must be in some way exemplary of the program and the school district must have reported in some detail their…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship
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