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Hirsch, Sharlene P. – 1979
The document describes the Executive High School Internships program which mainstreamed a pilot group of 14 high potential students with orthopedic, hearing, and sight impairments into a project which enabled them to spend a full term, on leave from classes, in nonpaid placements with public and private sector managers and executives, learning how…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Gifted, Hearing Impairments
GERARD, ROBERT A. – 1966
THE PROGRAM, DESIGNED TO EXPERIMENT WITH NEW METHODS OF EMPLOYING YOUTHS FROM LOW- AND MARGINAL-INCOME FAMILIES, EMPLOYED 170 YOUTHS AGED 16 TO 21 IN IMPROVING AND DEVELOPING VACANT AREAS FOR RECREATION IN DECLINING NEIGHBORHOODS. THE LONGER RANGE GOALS OF THE PROJECT WERE TO ENCOURAGE THE YOUTHS TO PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR SKILLED EMPLOYMENT AND TO…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Indigenous Personnel, Neighborhood Improvement
Fielstra, Clarence; Chrispin, Barbara Rosenquist – 1972
The most difficult problem to be solved by this demonstration project was the high dropout rate in the target schools. More than half of the students routinely dropped out in the tenth grade, leading to the decision to start the program at that level in an effort to hold potential dropouts by stimulating their interest in health-care occupations.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Counseling, Clinical Experience, Demonstration Programs
New Jersey Police Training Commission, Trenton. – 1969
Three police training programs varied markedly and present a selection of models appropriate to different circumstances and training needs. The New Jersey Police Training Commission provides for supervisory training through the use of mobile classrooms staffed with trained professional teams, equipped with modern teaching aids, and experimenting…
Descriptors: Administrators, Demonstration Programs, Mobile Classrooms, Police
Hoberman, Solomon – 1982
The National Child Labor Committee, in its formative evaluation of secondary cooperative education programs, collected data that were used to identify outstanding programs, define key elements of cooperative education programs, and estimate emphases and areas of success of outstanding programs. A list of key elements of cooperative education…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Research, Employer Attitudes
Silverberg, Marsha; Bergeron, Jeanette; Haimson, Joshua; Nagatoshi, Charles – 1996
To promote and evaluate initiatives designed to address concerns over preparing American youths for employment, the U.S. Department of Labor sponsored the School-to Work/Youth Apprenticeship Demonstration, which began in 1990 with grants to six programs. In 1992, grants were extended for 5 of these programs and added for 10 other programs. This…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
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DiFede, Pat; Edwards, Larcelous, Jr. – 1976
This report is focused on retention of minority students at Broward Community College. Convinced that identifiable minorities can progress through the college and its programs if they receive appropriate assistance, Broward Community College along with Broward Manpower Council designed a work experience program for full-time students who can work…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Demonstration Programs
NELLUM, ALBERT L.; AND OTHERS – 1966
SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO (1) OFFER YOUTH WHOLESOME, INCOME-PRODUCING ACTIVITY WHILE THEY ARE OUT OF SCHOOL, (2) GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH JOBS AND WORK, (3) LET THEM EXPLORE VOCATIONAL POSSIBILITIES, AND (4) TEACH THEM SOMETHING OF THE EXPECTATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS OF EMPLOYERS, AS WELL AS THEIR…
Descriptors: Community Action, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1980
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects were designed to test whether guaranteed part-time jobs during the school year and full-time jobs in the summer would induce economically disadvantaged youths to remain in or return to school. The General Accounting Office (GAO) found that most worksites provided adequate experiences. Others, however,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Vogel, F. J.; And Others – 1972
An assessment of the Exemplary Program for Occupational Preparation (EPOP), this report addresses itself to an identification of the project's present status, and outlines goals and objectives toward which project efforts should be directed during the final operational year. Comprehensive in scope, the program involved students at the elementary,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Planning, Demonstration Programs
Bulen, Julia; Bullis, Michael – 1995
This paper reports on an ongoing 3-year project which has worked with three school sites to identify program and staff needs and then develop a tailored intervention to improve program services for adolescent students with severe emotional disturbances (SED). Necessary characteristics of effective transition programs for this population are…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship
Friedlander, Daniel; And Others – 1986
This report presents findings of a three-year evaluation of West Virginia's Community Work Experience Program (CWEP), which requires public service in exchange for welfare payments by able-bodied recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Overall findings indicate that the state has succeeded in its principal objective:…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs
Ball, Joseph; And Others – 1980
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects were set up to aid disadvantaged youths, ages 16 to 19, by guaranteeing them a part-time job during the school year and a full-time job during summer months on the condition that they remain in, or return to, a secondary school or enroll in an equivalent education program. The program was started in…
Descriptors: Definitions, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Spotts, Robert; And Others – 1974
The final evaluation report summarizes the FY 1974 operation of the Experience-Based Career Education Program at Far West School (FWS). The report's introduction provides a brief overview of the secondary level program and the evaluation design. Chapter 2 focuses on the procedures for the recruitment and selection of program students, discusses…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Demography, Demonstration Programs
Seyfarth, John T.; And Others – 1973
The report examines the attitudes of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program toward the program as indicated by their responses to an interview schedule (included in an appendix) administered near the end of the first program year (1972-73). Regarding post-high school plans most…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Planning, Demonstration Programs, Educational Programs
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