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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
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Vailasseri, Pradeep; Long, John M.; Joordens, Matthew – Education Sciences, 2021
A study on the effectiveness of engineering education in the development of industry-ready graduate engineers was conducted among academics and industry experts of engineering disciplines who have relevant experience in work-integrated learning in Australia. The hypothesis was that embedding enhanced work-integrated learning into all study…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Career Readiness, Work Experience Programs, Program Implementation
Lindstrom, Lauren E.; Beno, Carolynne – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2020
One of the key purposes of public education is to prepare young people to reach their full potential as independent adults and engaged citizens. This transition to adulthood may be especially challenging for youth with disabilities. Students enrolled in special education often need additional supports and coordinated planning to prepare for…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Students with Disabilities, Special Education, Program Effectiveness
College & Career Academy Support Network, 2018
College and career pathways represent a significant national educational reform movement supported by federal, state, and philanthropic funding. High school pathways combine career and technical education with rigorous academics, work-based learning, and student supports to provide equitable access to postsecondary opportunities. Strong research…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Capacity Building, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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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
Kane, Anita; Stull, William J. – 1999
This report examines local school-to-work partnerships in Pennsylvania and summarizes the lessons that can be learned from them. It includes information on how local partnerships work, functions of local school-to-work partnerships, and partnership activities such as establishing educator in the workplace opportunities, making business…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Institutional Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Program Effectiveness
Brewer, Rick L. – 1994
This booklet is intended to assist vocational educators in building business-education partnerships through extended campus and preapprenticeship programs. It contains suggestions for implementing preapprenticeship, extended campus (job site), and apprenticeship-type programs that can be constructed within the framework of existing vocational…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Behavioral Objectives, Learning Activities, Partnerships in Education
Goldberger, Susan; And Others – 1994
This technical assistance guide is written to help practitioners and policymakers involve large numbers of employers in providing high quality learning experiences in the workplace. Section I discusses the challenge of the school-to-work transition and guiding principles for new efforts. Section II focuses on strategies for recruiting and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes, Employers
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1996
This bulletin focuses on the requirement of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 that school-to-work initiatives engage representatives of organized labor in the development, implementation, and governance of a school-to-work system. The first section outlines what organized labor brings to the school-to-work initiative. The next section…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning, Integrated Curriculum
Winthrop, Jerauld – 2001
Career academies are high school programs that frame academic learning around a career focus in order to increase student motivation and achievement. They generally have three defining features: a school-within-a-school structure, a college preparation curriculum with a career theme, and partnerships with employers, the community, and higher…
Descriptors: Career Academies, Compliance (Legal), Education Work Relationship, Employer Employee Relationship
Pauly, Edward; And Others – 1994
A study identified 16 programs that represented the range of innovative school-to-work approaches found in the United States and drew on their experiences to learn about the challenges they had confronted. Data were collected during two visits to each program in 1992 and 1993. Findings underscored the diversity of the school-to-work movement and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship
Savoie-Zajc, Lorraine; Dolbec, Andre – 2002
A study identified students' perspectives on quality and nature of learning achieved in a vocational program using a cooperative learning approach. The theoretical framework for analysis of the implementation of a vocational program included Lave and Wenger's (1991) concept of situated learning and the Guile and Griffiths' (2001) model of work…
Descriptors: Action Research, Context Effect, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs
Silverberg, Marsha K.; Hulsey, Lara K.; Hershey, Alan M. – 1997
In fall 1992, 87 percent of coordinators of funded local tech prep consortia (n=897) completed the third national evaluation survey. Findings indicated the following: formation of new consortia slowed; they grew larger and included a substantial and increasing share of school districts; middle school and postsecondary membership expanded;…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Development, Career Education, Consortia
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
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