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Weeks, Christopher – 1996
This document presents the basics of the career academy, a method of integrating vocational with academic educational systems and of providing a contextually valid education. The first section outlines the problems that the academy systems attempt to address, the four major principles essential for the success of career academies, and the nine…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Academies, Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Clark, Gilbert; Zimmerman, Enid – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
All programs for the gifted and talented should incorporate visual and performing arts, so that students' natural interests and creative abilities are not stifled. Many gifted and talented high school students not classified as artistically talented can achieve in discipline-based curriculum areas stressing nondiscursive art-making activities.…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academically Gifted, Creativity, Educational Benefits
Lewis and Clark Community Coll., Godfrey, IL. – 1992
The River Bend Tech Prep project was undertaken to develop a tech prep curriculum in high schools in the Lewis and Clark Community College (LCCC) district in Illinois to improve students' academic skills and eventual employment opportunities and contribute to the region's economic growth and stability. The following activities were completed…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, High Schools
Western Wisconsin Technical Coll., La Crosse. – 1993
This publication consists of two parts: an overview of tech prep in Western Wisconsin and the Tech Prep Strategic Plan for Western Wisconsin. The overview combines reduced-size pages (four to a page) with full-size pages that include the following: the definition of tech prep; legislative mandate; rationale; benefits of tech prep; tech prep…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
Berman, Tamara; Steinberg, Adria – 1997
This book suggests strategies for creating meaningful project and work-based learning experiences that were developed by teams of vocational and academic teachers and addresses the support issues necessary to sustain successful efforts. It begins with a description of the design team model and activities of the Vocational Integration with…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Apprenticeships, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Valencia Community Coll., Orlando, FL. – 1995
This document contains a performance report, a master plan, objectives, and an evaluation plan for a project in which Valencia Community College (Orlando, Florida) is to facilitate increasing cooperation between vocational and academic departments and move toward integrating vocational and academic courses in high schools and postsecondary…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development, High Schools
Wu, Robert T. Y. – 1996
One of the most important educational reforms related to secondary education in Taiwan is the planning of comprehensive high schools. The impetus for their establishment has come from several sources, including increased educational alternatives, integration of academic and vocational education resources to upgrade the quality of education, the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Education, Career Guidance, Comprehensive Programs
Naylor, Michele – 1988
The educational excellence movement has made an academic curriculum a high priority for all high school students, including the 40 percent who do not go on to college. The joint efforts approach to incorporating basic skills into the vocational curriculum is based on the following assumptions: (1) academic skills are embedded in vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
Wienk, Micky J. – 1993
Based on experience with the program in South Dakota, this document contains 54 questions and answers about tech prep, the integrated academic-vocational system of education encompassing 2 years of high school and 2 years of college. The guide provides information on such topics as the following: what tech prep is, how Perkins Act funds are used…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance
McLean DeWitt Regional Vocational System, Bloomington, IL. – 1992
Emphasis of the Industrial Tech Prep Projects in Heartland Community College (Illinois) regions was on planning and raising tech prep awareness among school administrators, teachers, counselors, and private industry. To develop industrial technology tech prep associate degree programs, an organizational structure was designed consisting of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, High Schools
Partnership for Academic and Career Education, Pendleton, SC. – 1993
This publication provides information and materials on the tech prep initiative of the Partnership for Academic and Career Education (PACE). It begins with questions and answers addressing the why and what of tech prep, for whom tech prep is designed, and what the goals of tech prep are. Diagrams illustrate PACE tech prep components,…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Gugerty, John – 1995
Information is provided on tech prep education programs, which are part of a restructuring movement that combines secondary and postsecondary programs to provide technical preparation in a field such as engineering technology, agriculture, health, or business. Information on the following topics is outlined: seven essential elements of tech prep;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Associate Degrees, College School Cooperation, Definitions
Tri-County Technical Coll., Pendleton, SC. – 1990
The project report that introduces this document describes how the Partnership for Academic and Career Education (PACE) project developed tech prep/associate degree program agreements between Tri-County Technical College and seven school districts in Anderson, Oconee, and Pikens Counties, South Carolina. The partnership resulted in restructuring…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Wisconsin Univ., Green Bay. School Services Bureau. – 1985
A study of Michigan's Copper Country Intermediate School District was undertaken to identify ways nine small secondary schools with declining enrollments could increase educational opportunities for students by cooperative sharing. The 6-month study included analyzing data on each school, identifying factors which might constrain cooperative…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Access to Education, Community Support, Cooperative Programs
John A. Logan Coll., Carterville, IL. – 1992
A project successfully infused tech prep into the vocational-technical programs of 10 of the 11 high schools in the John A. Logan College district in Illinois. All participating schools revised course syllabi for a portion of their academic classes indicating the use of applied materials. The Principles of Technology class was offered successfully…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, College School Cooperation