This second brief on learnings from career education (CE) opportunities in the California Community Colleges (CCC) focuses on what college personnel described as barriers to designing and implementing programs with features that students find helpful, as described in the first brief of this series (ED610768) (e.g., cohorts, consistent course…

Based on concepts and approaches resulting from the development of a series of Native American Career Education instructional units in a previous project, this project was designed to assist educational staff and Indian community members at four sites to initiate development of career education programs that would use available resources and…

This guide is intended to serve as a resource for school, project, and/or community people in implementing a career education program for their Indian students. The guide is divided into four chapters, followed by an annotated bibliography. The first chapter describes the conditions and resources needed to start developing a program and how to…

This document provides guidelines for designing, implementing, and evaluating the effectiveness of a district-specific career education program for special education students. Part I lists 10 activities to design, implement, and evaluate a cost-effective career education program. Examples are included of the outcome of each activity. Activities…

This article describes a precollege intervention program known as the Philadelphia Regional Introduction for Minorities in Engineering. The goals and objectives, essential elements, and history of the program are discussed. Several ideas for program administrators are listed. (CW)

A policy analysis examined existing school-to-work transition programs in order to identify and evaluate the arguments for a national initiative to provide school-to-work transition services to high school seniors who are poorly equipped to obtain and retain jobs after graduation. To gather data for the study, the researchers conducted a…

This interim guide develops a new high school option, Lifestyles 205 and provides teachers with a curriculum for a lifestyles studies course for grade 11 or 12. The course includes several major components that emphasize the roles of the developing individual as a producer and consumer and as a family and community member. Major functions of the…

This manual is designed to review those topics which should be considered when initiating a school improvement effort in career education. These materials, representing a one-day workshop, consist of seven activities. Topics covered in the activities are an overview of the workshop, work flow and a work-flow diagram, needs assessment, career…

These guide notes for training and operational staff set out Great Britain's Electricity Supply Industry Training Committee (ESITC) policy on craft on-the-job training (OJT). They are complementary to ESITC recommendations on Craft Training and of equal status to them. Section 1 is an introduction. Sections 2 through 5 outline the aims of…

This final report discusses the activities and outcomes of Project Anchor, a 3-year federally funded model demonstration project that was created to address how service providers, families, employers, and the community could work together to improve educational services and results for secondary students with emotional and behavioral disorders.…

This training manual presents "Connecting to Success" (CTS), a program designed to expand through technology the mentoring, career development, and improved academic achievement opportunities for youth with disabilities. The manual begins by defining electronic mentoring as a way to connect adult employees with students through the Internet. It…

To arrive at the key components of a comprehensive school-to-work transition strategy, researchers for the study reported here reviewed the literature in the field of school-to-work transition and also consulted with numerous experts in the field. To determine how many states have adopted the components of comprehensive strategies, the researchers…

This paper summarizes major experiences and practices of information development units of state-based career information systems which produce accurate, current, and localized occupational and educational information for career planning. It is intended as a guide for states considering setting up a similar system and for staff members in presently…

This booklet is a description of a model program developed to improve the status of transitional black women in the southeastern United States. These women are defined as under- or unemployed, poor, undereducated, migrant, or household heads, unaware of specialized educational and occupational opportunities available to them, and/or unable to take…

This guide is intended to give the reader an understanding of the processes used and programs developed in the Boston School/Business Partnership Program. Chapter 1 discusses the rationale for partnership, including such topics as Boston's initiative to use business resources to upgrade educational curriculum, underlying principles, and one-to-one…