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Download full textGodbey, Samantha; Gordon, Howard R. D. – Middle Grades Review, 2019
In this essay, we discuss issues related to the integration of career exploration in our nation's middle schools. We discuss the theoretical and empirical basis for career exploration at the middle school level and identify selected barriers to its effective implementation, namely with regards to career advising and parent involvement. We also…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Middle School Students, Barriers, Program Implementation
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Smith, Nicole; Stone, James R., III; Kotamraju, Pradeep; Steuernagel, Bruce; Green, Kimberly A. – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2011
This report presents data on job opportunities and skill requirements through 2018 arranged by the 16 career clusters in the Carl D. Perkins Act of 2006. The data are arranged state-by-state and the District of Columbia, from 2008 through 2018. Skill requirements are reflected in the length and extent of educational preparation and training…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Occupational Information, Job Skills, Occupational Clusters
Mulqueen, Nan, Ed. – Maryland State Department of Education, 2008
Maryland redesigned its CTE (career and technical education) program a dozen years ago to prepare students for the 21st Century's global economy and its rapidly changing workforce needs. With 350 business and industry representatives, the state created a program whose emphasis is problem-solving and critical thinking, rather than narrow,…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education, State Programs
Direct linkMoss, Hilary J. – University of Chicago Press, 2009
While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion.…
Descriptors: African Americans, Equal Education, Citizenship, African American Education
Southern Maryland Educational Consortium, La Plata. – 1995
The Southern Maryland Educational Consortium's Tech Prep Model Demonstration project is described in this final report. The consortium members are Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's county school districts and Charles County Community College in southern Maryland. The project is based on a 4 + 2 model in which ninth-grade students develop career…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Case Studies, College School Cooperation
Raber, Suzanne M.; Merchlinsky, Suzanne R. – 1995
In the Southern Maryland Educational Consortium's 4 + 2 tech prep program, ninth-grade students develop career plans and follow career pathways in one of three technologies--health and human services, electronics and engineering, or business. The program was evaluated by an independent social science research firm to identify the different…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Case Studies, College School Cooperation
Maley, Donald; Mietus, Walter S. – 1968
The Cluster Concept Program in vocational education, a program for the 11th and 12th grades, is designed to prepare youth for entry level capability in a variety of related occupations rather than a specific occupation. Phase III of research with the program was the evaluation of the first year of experimentation with the programs for the 11th…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Building Trades, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Career Technology and Adult Learning. – 1995
This document lists and discusses the development of Maryland's performance specifications for occupational programs. The introduction explains the process used to develop performance standards and specifications for 10 career cluster majors that were identified by a task force of educators and employers as high-demand occupational areas in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Air Conditioning, Allied Health Occupations, Biotechnology
