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Christine Lindh – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The post-school transition phenomenon has been examined using educational and vocational viewpoints. However, despite evidence-based practices and policies, individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) often experience unfavorable outcomes. This population needs a voice in existing literature because it tends to be aggregated with other…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Mild Intellectual Disability, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Young Adults
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Achatz, Juliane; Jahn, Kerstin; Schels, Brigitte – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2022
This study explores school-to-work transitions in Germany, aiming to achieve a richer understanding of the complexity of labour market entry trajectories while focusing on transition measures. The term transition measures refers to additional training courses that complement the regular vocational education and training system of firm-based or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Employment Qualifications, Vocational Education
Lynn E. Shoemaker – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Despite existing legislation and provision of post-secondary transition plans to bridge the gap between secondary school and the workplace for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID), workplace sites in rural central Ohio have continued to have a hiring rate of individuals with ID that is lower than the national average. The focal point of…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Rural Areas, Secondary Education, Employment
Alterman, Emma; Treskon, Louisa – MDRC, 2022
The Reconnecting Youth project aims to systematically understand what programs and practices are available in the United States to support young people who experience disconnection from school and work during the transition period to adulthood (typically defined as ages 16 to 24). It focuses specifically on services to help them reconnect to…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Transitional Programs, Access to Education, Out of School Youth
Education Scotland, 2015
Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), published in November 2004, states that all young people should be "successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors to society and at work". These are commonly referred to as the 4 capacities of CfE. CfE also recommends that the curriculum should be designed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Equal Education, Student Diversity
pepnet 2, 2017
The overall goal of the Building State Capacity Summit series was to enhance successful outcomes for students leaving high school, whether it is matriculation in a postsecondary education or training program, or employment. Young adults who are deaf or hard or hearing face barriers that inhibit these successful outcomes. One way to mitigate these…
Descriptors: Statewide Planning, Educational Planning, Deafness, Secondary Education
Harmon, Adrienne S., Comp. – 1991
This master index provides access by title, author, and subject descriptors to items described in the first six volumes of the "Annotated Bibliography on Transition from School to Work." Volumes 1 through 6 of the bibliography annotates over 2,400 references on topics related to transition of individuals with disabilities. Examples of topics…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Job Training
Bailis, Lawrence Neil – 1984
This report examines the status of coordination at State and local levels between the activities funded by the Service Delivery Areas and other employment and training programs on the one hand, and between these programs and private sector employers on the other. The status of coordination in Fiscal 1983, the last year of the Comprehensive…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Policy Update, 1993
This policy update discusses key aspects of the Job Training Reform Amendments of 1992 (Public Law 102-367) that have potential implications for transition services for individuals with disabilities. The discussion focuses on participant eligibility, criteria established for "hard-to-serve" individuals, support for training and…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Eligibility
Baumgart, Diane; And Others – 1987
The guide, developed by the Secondary Transition and Employment Project (STEP) in Idaho, is intended to provide students with mild, moderate, or severe handicaps with hands-on community work experience in order to determine vocational preferences and to provide instruction in work-related skills, functional academics, and job-seeking skills. Work…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, High Schools
Leach, Lynda N.; Harmon, Adrienne S. – 1991
This annotated bibliography is the sixth in a series of monographs documenting the literature in the field of transition from school to work for individuals with disabilities. Many different types of documents are cited and abstracted, including journal articles, conference proceedings, project reports, videocassette recordings, presentations,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs
Chadsey-Rusch, Janis – 1990
This study describes the social interactions used by a group of 10 secondary-aged students with severe to profound mental retardation, using data gathered through the use of narrative recording procedures. The students' interactions were recorded during school arrival, lunch, and vocational training. Results are presented along three dimensions:…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Job Training
Bruce, Michael G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
Observing that there is no shortage of work to be done, but rather a shortage of employment, this essay analyzes aspects of youth unemployment in Europe including school effectiveness; alienation and the work ethic; remedies, which include European Community's "social guarantee"; and some considerations for future change. (MJL)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Russell, Russ – 1984
The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) has developed five sets of measures to respond to the problems of the transition from school to working life. These are (1) Arbeitslehre (learning about the world of work); (2) vocational guidance, involving multimedia, open-access vocational information centers and close coordination with the Arbeitslehre…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
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Carter, Erik W.; Lunsford, Lauren B. – Preventing School Failure, 2005
Meaningful employment can have a significant impact on the lives of young adults with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Unfortunately, too few adolescents with EBD experience successful employment outcomes upon leaving high school. In this article, the authors review components of secondary educational programming that may contribute to…
Descriptors: Employment, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Adolescents
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