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VocEd, 1979
The ten-state university extension pilot program of the Energy Extension Service, United States Department of Energy, provides training through the state vocational education system for staff from utilities, community agencies, and local government to make on-site energy audits and encourage conservation by small energy users. (MF)
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Consumer Education, Curriculum Development, Energy Conservation
Moffett, Carlton C.; Cogswell, J. E. – VocEd, 1979
Describes the concept and development of "magnet" high schools in Dallas, Texas, as part of their compliance with the desegration court order and also to provide specialized and intensified career training. Each magnet school includes job-oriented instruction in an occupational cluster, planned with business and industry input. (MF)
Descriptors: Career Development, Desegregation Methods, Occupational Clusters, Program Descriptions
Porter, John W. – VocEd, 1979
Part of the desegration plan for the Detroit Public Schools included the construction under federal court order of five area vocational schools, the first to open in January 1980. Describes steps in program planning, initial lack of public support for vocational education, and growing community support for the concept. (MF)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Attitude Change, Black Attitudes, Community Attitudes
Fretwell, Dave; And Others – VocEd, 1979
Describes the newly formed national and state occupational information coordinating committees, under the Education Amendments of 1976 and earlier legislation, which are charged with implementing an occupational information system for the planning and operation of state training and employment programs and with coordinating occupational…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Monaco, Fred A. – VocEd, 1979
Pittsburgh Public Schools' student placement coordinator describes their program to help secondary students and school leavers with cooperative, part-time, and later full-time job placement, using behavior modification and cooperative education. Includes program organization, use of paraprofessionals, funding, and the importance of employer…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Planning, Delinquency Prevention