All of the ideas and advice you can get on research-based school improvement don't matter if your community does not address norms that discourage and dishonor academic achievement. Fortunately, here's a book with lots of successful examples from real schools that shows how educators can collaborate with others to reverse poor motivation, reward…

Reports on the close interaction between faculty, students, and professional newspaper staff in a Florida college community. (RL)

Describes a collaboration between 10 private companies and 10 professors from 4 universities in an effort to keep researchers on the cutting edge of both the science that underlies future generations of electronic devices and the accompanying fabrication techniques. (ZWH)

Examines the three ways of introducing CAD (computer assisted drafting) systems into industrial education curricula without spending large amounts of money. These are (1) buying software and additional hardware for computers that the school may already have, (2) getting industrial support, and (3) building your own system. (CT)

Describes a project in which high school students developed promotional magazines for local businesses, thus experiencing business operations and developing social skills while researching a product. Notes that students take responsibility for their learning and make connections between school and workplace knowledge. (SR)

Describes an information interview assignment for business communication students, in which students interview practitioners in a chosen field for information and advice. (MM)

Employment is one of the biggest contributors to quality of life for people with disabilities--and that means well-planned work experiences should be an integral part of transition preparation for every secondary and postsecondary school aged youth. Make that happen with this practical guide, developed to help educators, transition specialists,…

Presents the Massachusetts Parent Involvement Project (MassPIP) comprising 59 local community coalitions of businesses, service organizations, school personnel, parents, and children. Describes steps coalitions follow in planning events and presents community success stories. The project developed a set of activities that parents can do at home…

Discusses the efforts of the president of the National Academy of Science to get scientists more involved in the public schools. (ZWH)

Introduces a five-part program involving industry and technology cooperation in science education, including the curriculum-focused multi-site tour, general tours, teacher tours, and open days. (YDS)

Summarizes seven pilot projects in which industries and schools collaborate to provide an outdoor education experience for students. Industry provides the context by allowing schools to use wilderness land rich in natural ecosystems. Includes brief description of the process of establishing such a partnership between schools and industries. (DDR)

This reading curriculum for the Education for Employment Project (a project based on business and education partnerships, with the goal of producing the finest, best educated, and most skilled work force in the United States has as its purpose the development of strategic readers critical thinkers who view reading as a lifelong interactive process…

The papers in this collection were presented at the second annual conference on the Teaching of Technical Writing at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Those from the general session, which are of a philosophical nature, discuss a flexible approach to teaching technical writing, the essentials of a technical writing course, how technical…

Cooperative Education is a teaching method which uses real life work experiences to teach and/or reinforce competencies from the Marketing Content Standards. Direct connections are made between classroom instruction and workplace activities. The activities in this manual can be used to reinforce and contextualize content taught in the classroom…

Those disciplines in the pharmaceutical sciences where critical manpower shortages now exist or will occur are identified by 34 pharmaceutical manufacturers in response to a request by the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education, which awarded fellowships in four critical areas. High priority needs are appended. (JMD)