Described is a Title III work study model to provide a 4-year vocational training program for approximately 40 handicapped junior and senior high school students in Westport, Connecticut. Program activities (such as conferences with employers) and the needed professional personnel (such as a school psychologist) are outlined for each of the…

Studied two high school work-based learning programs; one offered paid work experience for one semester, the other provided unpaid internships each year. Quality of students' program work and the relationship between the program and school learning are discussed. (MAK)

The Center for Vocational Arts has completed 3 years of providing occupational training for school alienated youth. The report of the first 2 years of operation was published August 31, 1967 (ED 016 868) and a brief summary of that report is included in this report of the activities and research findings for the period September 1, 1967 to August…

This document is an appendix to the second interim report, "A Pilot Project to Develop a Program of Occupational Training for School Alienated Youth," VT 007 457. Included are the complete reports of the 1967-68 evaluation done by the Office of Field Research and School Services, New York University: (1) A Comparative Study of the…

This is the second of a three-volume final report of a study to assess the effectiveness of secondary and postsecondary cooperative education programs in the nation's hundred largest cities and to analyze the postprogram experiences of participants and nonparticipants. This volume presents the findings of the 24-month followup study of students…