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Rosen, Rachel; Alterman, Emma; Treskon, Louisa; Parise, Leigh; Dixon, Michelle; Wuest, Cassie – MDRC, 2023
The New York City P-TECH 9-14 schools are an educational model that ties together the secondary, higher education, and workforce systems to improve outcomes across domains. The distinguishing feature of the model is a partnership among a high school, a community college, and one or more employer partners that focuses on preparing students for both…
Descriptors: High Schools, Community Colleges, Employers, Partnerships in Education
Rachel Rosen; Emma Alterman; Louisa Treskon; Leigh Parise; Michelle Dixon; Cassie Wuest – MDRC, 2023
The New York City P-TECH 9-14 schools are an educational model that ties together the secondary, higher education, and workforce systems to improve outcomes across domains. The distinguishing feature of the model is a partnership among a high school, a community college, and one or more employer partners that focuses on preparing students for both…
Descriptors: High Schools, Community Colleges, Employers, Partnerships in Education
Taylor White; Lancy Downs – New America, 2023
Intermediaries play a complex and critical role in the growing work-based learning ecosystem, but little is known about the funding models that support them or how their funding approaches might vary depending on the programs they lead, where they sit within an ecosystem, or the nature of their relationships with other partners. To begin building…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Work Experience Programs, Educational Finance, Models
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Rukiya Curvey Johnson; Natalia Gallegos; Heather Hampton; Darius Caffey; Kimberly Bailey; Ellen Vigil; Tanea Culbreath-Byrd; Denise Jenkins; Angela Freeman – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2023
Students of color, first-generation, and residents of communities experiencing disinvestment--who aspire to obtain meaningful postsecondary degrees, career success, financial security, and social mobility--face tremendous challenges in navigating science, technology, engineering, math, and health science (STEM-H) education and career sectors. The…
Descriptors: Students, STEM Education, STEM Careers, Health Sciences
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Fleming, Jenny; McLachlan, Kathryn; Pretti, T. Judene – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2018
Work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences rely heavily on the development of relationships between the university, industry and often community organizations. As participation in WIL is increasing, the issue of sustainability becomes paramount, requiring processes and practices for effective collaborations and partnerships. This paper reports on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Work Experience Programs, Partnerships in Education
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Nicole, Madelyn; Fairbrother, Michele; Nagarajan, Srivalli Vilapakkam; Blackford, Julia; Sheepway, Lyndal; Penman, Merrolee; McAllister, Lindy – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
Through a collaborative university-hospital partnership, a student-led service model (SLS-model) was implemented to increase student placement capacity within a physiotherapy department of a 150 bed Sydney hospital. This study investigates the perceived barriers and enablers to increasing student placement capacity through student-led services…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Service Learning, Work Experience Programs
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Smith, Paul J.; Scott, Jonathan M. – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
This paper explores the views that students and employers have on innovative work-based learning (WBL) programmes in English higher education. The experiences of both students and employers were analysed methodologically, using the organizational story-telling framework (Gabriel, 1999). The themes that have emerged are learning support,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Work Experience Programs, Universities
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Grant, Donna M.; Malloy, Alisha D.; Murphy, Marianne C.; Foreman, Jovanna; Robinson, Rowena A. – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2010
A college degree is not what it used to be in respect to securing future employment. Constantly changing technologies in a struggling economy make it necessary for organizations to carefully balance recruitment staffing, particularly with regards to new hires. Organizations want to know that each new hire can add value immediately. In order to add…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Program Effectiveness, Information Technology, Models
Mulraney, James; Turner, Peter – 2001
Research in small enterprises (SEs) and schools in South Australia (SA) and New South Wales (NSW) ascertained differences and similarities in approach to structured workplace learning (SWL). Data were analyzed to identify critical exemplars of good practice in SWL in SEs. In each state, 4 high school SWL programs with SEs were selected; 41…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Developed Nations
Kaufmann, Barbara – 1998
This document examines employer involvement in school-to-work (STW) through the lens of seven business organizations: American Society for Training and Development; Business Coalition for Education Reform; The Business Roundtable; Committee for Economic Development; National Alliance of Business; National Association of Manufacturers; and U.S.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Lieberman, Joyce – 1998
This report is a synthesis of presentations and break-out sessions at a 1997 national conference (held in Cincinnati, Ohio) on sustaining school-to-career systems for urban youth. Nine state-urban partnerships comprised of 68 participants attended the conference. Conference discussion and activities focused on three major themes: (1) building…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Buck, Maria L. – 2000
Although the disappointing results of earlier ex-offender programs convinced many that "nothing works so let's just keep prisoners incarcerated longer," research in the 1980s and 1990s has shown that intensive pre-release employment training and post-release employment programs and support can cut the rate of recidivism. Current initiatives…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, At Risk Persons, Correctional Education
Spangenburg, Cathy – 1995
This report documents the Rochester (New York) City School District's efforts to develop and implement a school-to-work transition system featuring the following elements: activities at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels; combined formal schooling and structured on-the-job training based on nationally recognized standards;…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Case Studies, Cooperative Planning
Ohio Office of School-to-Work, Columbus. – 1996
This resource directory, which is designed to assist educators across Ohio who are involved in developing and implementing school-to-work systems, describes a number of promising school-to-work practices and partnerships that embrace and represent elements of Ohio's vision of a school-to-work system. Presented first are a statement of Ohio's…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education), Career Development
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 1999
According to the school-to-work (STW) program philosophy, STW efforts should be comprehensive and begin as early as preschool. At the elementary school level, the developmental process of career education begins with career awareness designed to broaden student knowledge about careers and connect academic learning to the workplace. Developing…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
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