From August 1974 to June 1975, three schools in the Owensboro, Kentucky area cooperated in an effort to provide an instructional program in mass communications to high school students. A four-year comprehensive high school, a vocational school, and Kentucky Wesleyan College pooled teaching staff, equipment, and facility resources in a course…

Youthwork, Incorporated, was created by the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) to keep track of youth employment and training programs. Privately-owned Youthwork administers federal demonstration grants across the country to help provide job guidance, work experience credit, private sector involvement, and…

Differences are defined between the Supervised Occupational Experience Program (SOEP) and Agricultural Cooperative Education (ACE) in terms of development and legislation, general program characteristics, instructional aspects, associate (personnel) relationships, and community relationships. A combination of both programs would offer selected…

Describes West Virginia's Community Work Experience Program, a work requirement program for public assistance recipients. Examines issues workfare raised in a rural context, explains why West Virginia avoided the controversy usually associated with such programs, and notes benefits including improved images for welfare workers, recipients, and…

The sequential career component, developed at The American University with cooperative education as its focal point, serves as one model by which a career dimension may be added to a traditional liberal arts curriculum. The career center and cooperative education program are described. (MLW)

Brazil's Project Rondon, an educational program aimed at broadening a student's education and to assist in the development of the nation's most poverty-stricken areas, is described. Teaching the poor to meet their own needs is the guiding philosophy. (MLW)

Property acquired by the Veterans Administration (VA) through defaults on VA-guaranteed home loans is repaired and redecorated under a housing rehabilitation program that also provides valuable vocational training for California secondary students. The student volunteers work under a qualified vocational instructor hired in accordance with a…

Examines the concerns of Kalamazoo College (Michigan) seniors about job security as they approach graduation. Many of the liberal arts school's students seek security over financial success. Kalamazoo programs help prepare graduates with off-campus work experience and exposure to career options. (MSE)

Serving as a substitute child caregiver can provide youth with an opportunity to sample the child care occupation while learning child care work skills. This report describes the Child Care Substitute Youth Internship Program, a community-based development project. Participating in the program in 1996 were fifteen 19- to 24-year-olds, 9 of whom…

This document reports the results of work in identifying promising approaches to the provision of technological update to vocational/technical teachers and barriers as well as facilitators to the use of those approaches. (Technological update refers to the technical, as opposed to pedagogical, knowledge and skills needed by vocational teachers to…

This report is the second to appear in a series of studies carried out by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) during the past 5 years. The first report concerned the integration of handicapped young people into ordinary schools. The present report deals with what happens…

THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: The Peninsula Academies program helps educationally disadvantaged youth overcome the handicaps of low academic achievement, lack of skills, and chronic unemployment. This is accomplished by providing a high school curriculum that is clearly related to work, training in specific job skills, emphasis…

This annotated bibliography includes a listing of programs and program information concerning apprenticeship, as well as apprenticeship-related curriculum materials. Included are materials that cover strategies for linking vocational education to apprenticeship and a series of books devoted to apprenticeship instructor training. The curriculum…

The portfolio assessment process at Thomas A. Edison State College is described in this report. Through portfolio assessment, the school helps students identify and gain credit for college-level skills and knowledge acquired through work, volunteer activities, independent reading, military or corporate training, and life experiences that may be…

A model career education program for physically disabled students in grades K through 12 was designed, implemented, and evaluated at Human Resources School (HRS), a school for the physically disabled, in Albertson, New York. The major objectives of this program are to enhance development of students' self concept, decisionmaking ability, and…