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Musset, Pauline; Kurekova, Lucia Mytna – OECD Publishing, 2018
Career and education decisions are amongst the most important young people make. Gender, ethnicity and socio-economic factors all strongly affect these choices. Career guidance is both an individual and a social good: it helps individuals to progress in their learning and work, but it also helps the effective functioning of the labour and learning…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Best Practices, Program Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship
Silander, Megan; Chavez-Reilly, Michael; Weinstein, Meryle – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2015
Teaching entrepreneurship--how to create, grow and run a business or organization--is one potential means to increase college and career readiness skills. Learning how to start a business can improve critical thinking, communication and collaboration (Gallagher, Stepien, & Rosenthal, 1992; Hmelo, 1998), which are key qualities for academic as…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Business Skills
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Smith, Stephen W.; Simpson, Richard L. – Behavioral Disorders, 1989
Analysis of 214 Individualized Education Programs for students with behavior disorders assigned to public school resource, self-contained, and cross-categorical and residential/institutional special education programs found many lacked mandated components and contained discrepancies between annual goals and present performance levels across age…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems, Federal Regulation
Glazer, Judith S.; Wughalter, Emily – Mentoring International, 1991
MENTOR in Education, a school-university partnership based in New York City and designed to acquaint talented minority high school students with careers in teaching, is described. Two innovative school models and their effects on participating students' educational aspirations and career choices are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College School Cooperation, High Schools, Higher Education
Met, Myriam – 1987
A fact sheet on foreign language immersion programs, in which the regular school curriculum is taught partially or entirely in a foreign language, briefly discusses the following: (1) the structure and goals of immersion instruction; (2) the introduction of English instruction; (3) the eventual effect of immersion instruction on verbal and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Immersion Programs, Instructional Materials, Program Design
McNutt, Anne – 1982
Like most cooperative education programs, the one at Nashville State Technical Institute in Tennessee benefits all concerned--the student, the college, business and industry, and the community. Among the many benefits of the cooperative education program are the following: clarification of student career goals, provision of relevant professional…
Descriptors: Business, College Credits, Cooperative Education, Definitions
Miller, Larry; And Others – 1982
A study described the policies and procedures utilized in exemplary adult vocational education programs in five school planning districts in Ohio. The study, which entailed an analysis of programs involving 34,618 students and 832 instructors, focused on program implementation and administration, student goals and outcomes, instructor…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Coordination