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New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Occupational Education Programs. – 1990
The State of New York conducted a follow-up study of the 76,000 students who completed an occupational education program in New York in 1987. Students were followed up by mail and telephone interviews, with an overall rate of return of 67 percent. Some of the major findings of the study were the following: (1) for all occupational education…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns
Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA. – 1998
ProTech is the Boston Public Schools' longest-standing and most developed school-to-career (STC) initiative. It is a collaboration of the Boston Public Schools, 75 employers, and the Boston Private Industry Council. ProTech combines rigorous academic instruction, a sequence of worksite learning experiences in seven major industrial clusters for…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Blacks, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
Levesque, Karen; Lauen, Doug; Teitelbaum, Peter; Alt, Martha; Librera, Sally – 2000
The National Center for Education Statistics conducted a comprehensive analysis of the current context of vocational education (VE), employer perspectives on VE, trends in secondary and postsecondary VE, the academic preparation of students participating in VE, relevant school reform efforts, and VE students' transitions after high school. Among…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Persistence, Articulation (Education), Change Strategies