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Direct linkStipanovic, Natalie; Lewis, Morgan V.; Stringfield, Sam – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2012
This article provides a broad overview of the history of career-focused education in the United States and the reauthorization of the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006. The Perkins act required that the recipients of its funding offer at least one program of study, and this reauthorization included four…
Descriptors: Tech Prep, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Change, Educational History
Peer reviewedSchoelkopf, Jim – NASSP Bulletin, 1995
A Portland, Oregon, high school adopted the tech-prep/school-to-work career pathway structure five years ago. This model offers a framework for a student's career development, based on a broad selection within a career path, such as human services, business and management, industrial and engineering systems, and other endeavors. Choice is flexible…
Descriptors: Career Education, Education Work Relationship, High Schools, Program Descriptions
Cooper, Kippy; Souders, Amy – 1997
This report provides information on three Exemplary Worksite Learning Award winning programs in which students learn by participating in hands-on classroom activities and by taking part in worksite experiences. Three sections provide a brief description of each winner. The first provides information on the Breithaupt Career and Technical Center…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship
Center for Occupational Research and Development, Inc., Waco, TX. – 1996
This booklet describes the success of tech prep under the federal school-to-work (STW) initiative and provides case studies showing how schools and businesses are using tech prep to create the world's best work force for the new millennium. The first section discusses the payoff from STW, and the second section describes tech prep. Section 3…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship
Download full textHensley, Oliver D., Ed.; And Others – 1996
Developed during a project to document and analyze the tech prep initiative in Texas, this handbook contains exemplary documents associated with the model programs in the state. This second edition of the handbook organizes documents in sections (sections A, C, D, and G) that correspond to the major impact sectors identified during the research…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Guidance, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1995
This publication describes the 12 winning programs and the 9 semifinalists of the 1995 U.S. Secretary of Education's Awards for Outstanding Vocational-Technical Education Programs. The awards program was established in 1981 to recognize excellence in local school-to-work and vocational-technical education programs, services, and activities that…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Apprenticeships, Auto Body Repairers, Awards
