Developed as a handbook, this document is intended to serve as a technical guide for establishing vocational evaluation units as a means of screening minorities for successful job placement and fulfillment. In the proposed vocational evaluation units, the potential employee uses the tools, materials, and equipment of a given occupation in a…

The goal of the grants program is to have a positive influence on the process by which people choose jobs and careers by providing them with accurate and locally relevant occupational information. The document outlines the objectives, standards and guidelines on the basis of which the Department of Labor will fund information systems in States and…

Again today, as 40 years ago, the idea of setting standards for career and technical education (CTE) has come to the fore. CTE practitioners have learned some lessons about implementing standards, among them that there is no "standard" standard; instead, there can be a confusing variety of standards. An analysis of standards reveals that there are…