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Download full textWohl, Seth F. – 1974
Ten alternative high schools serving a total of 2,750 students in New York City were evaluated in terms of their administration, programs, student body, and specific educational objectives. Three main types of programs were in operation at the schools. These included: (1) Remediation with emphasis on basic skills in reading, mathematics and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Cooperative Education, High School Students
Gold, Charlie L. – 1982
An interdisciplinary career training program, "Contracting with Business and Industry" (CWB&I), was developed by Bay de Noc Community College (Michigan) to meet nontraditional students' needs for specialized career orientation, training, and personal development. Through contracts between the college and local businesses, students acquire…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Job Training, Nontraditional Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of General Education. – 1975
This is the final report of the 1974-75 Student Advisory Committee's study of the senior year of high school. The committee's solutions to "senioritis" focus on three areas: the school, the school and the community, and the school and colleges. The school itself can take certain steps to improve the senior year such as providing…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College School Cooperation, Colleges, Cooperative Education
McCann, Matthew R. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
One of the most successful attempts to give instruction in the trades in the public high school and at the same time to preserve the best of the traditional high-school course is that begun at Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The cooperative plan, adopted in imitation of that in use in the college of engineering of the University of Cincinnati, has…
Descriptors: Educational History, Industrial Education, Cooperative Education, High School Students
Peer reviewedBridgeford, Nancy J.; Owens, Thomas R. – Journal of Career Education, 1979
Developed and implemented through four regional educational laboratories, Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) provides secondary students with an alternative education program combining academic learning, community resource career experiences, and life skill development. Program evaluation of data from sixteen pilot sites indicates that EBCE…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Attitudes, Cooperative Education, Experiential Learning
Peer reviewedYeung, Y. N. Au; And Others – Studies in Higher Education, 1993
A survey of staff, industrial sector members, and current and past students in a Hong Kong Polytechnic cooperative education program investigated perceptions of the academic and nonacademic values of the system and the needs of local industries. Program design options are considered, including part-time and full-time study. (MSE)
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Cooperative Education, Educational Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
PDF pending restorationEhresman, Norman D.; Vincent, Roger D. – 1976
Comprehensive work experience and vocational guidance activities were established at the middle school level and their effects on career maturity and attitudes toward school of ninth graders were tested. The project was conducted at the Bowling Green Junior High School (Kentucky) during the academic school year of 1975-76. (The school supports a…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Exploration, Career Guidance, College School Cooperation
Parikh, V. M. – 1978
To examine the feasibility of introducing a program of cooperative education at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), a task force assessed the problems encountered by other institutions which have introduced cooperative education. Attention was given to the support that might be expected for cooperative education among students,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordinators
Work in America Inst., Scarsdale, NY. – 1978
A study of high school work experience programs was designed to explore the work environment in regard to employer policies, practices, processes and program ingredients to gauge their impact on high school student workers during the school-to-work transition. Two work experience programs were analyzed (North Terrytown, New York, and in Newark,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Exploration, Case Studies, Cooperative Education
