Missouri career education opportunities are preparing young people and adults for the job market and/or further education. These programs combine academics and job-specific skill training to assist in narrowing the skills gap. This fact sheet highlights 2018-19 data on Missouri's career and technical education (CTE) programs. [For the 2017-18 Fact…

Missouri career education is preparing young people and adults for the job market and/or further education. It combines academics and job-specific skill training to assist in narrowing the skills gap. This fact sheet shows how Missouri's career education programs are preparing students for the future. [For the 2016-17 Fact Sheet, see ED590196.]

Missouri career education is preparing young people and adults for the job market and/or further education. It combines academics and job-specific skill training to assist in narrowing the skills gap. This fact sheet shows how Missouri's career education programs are preparing students for the future.

Vertical delivery, electric unit heaters provided a solution to draft problems from overhead service doors at the Madison County Center in Tennessee. (Author/MLF)

A survey of 32 secondary area vocational center directors was designed to determine communications skills assessment and instructional strategies used in vocational programs and to identify assessment needs in communication skills. Results indicated a lack of practical procedures for identifying and assessing level of generalizable communication…

This paper is a follow-up to a previous paper on the importance of career education in middle and secondary schools. A number of established career centers in Ontario were surveyed through a written survey and personal visitations. The paper discusses the use, staffing, funding, and reflections on the future for such centers. (Author)

Northeast Oklahoma Vocational-Technical Center's two-campus facility serves eleventh and twelfth grades (18 percent Cherokee youth) from 22 high schools. The courses are geared strictly to modern-day needs and labs are up-to-date, but the setting is as indigenous as the Indian villages of unexplored America. (Author/BP)

The development, program, and facilities of a successful specialized high school career training center in Illinois are briefly presented. The importance to the program of a combination workbook/reference "Occupational Essentials" is emphasized. (AG)

Plans for the Columbus Metropolitan Career Center give promise of being an imaginative approach to career education. The aim is to offer at one location a career mix that parallels the real work where technicians, professionals, and craftsmen work together. Three occupational centers will open in the fall of 1976. (Author)

The West Valley Occupational Center in Woodland Hills, California, has design features that are flexible enough to be adapted to a level of technology as yet unknown. (Author/MLF)

Contained in this alphabetized, occupational education directory are the names of secondary and post-secondary education programs offered by New York's public and private institutions. Listed alphabetically by county, only licensed, registered, or approved schools and programs are included. (SN)

Describes the Saudi system of prevocational centers, designed to retrieve young male dropouts, prepare them for reentering general education, orient them to job skills, and prepare them for more extensive training at vocational training centers. The curriculum, emphasizing clerical and industrial skills, is also discussed. (SK)

Arlington (VA) Career Center offers experience-based career education as an alternative high school program for special education students. Forty-five sites in the community provide a range of work environments and opportunities for practice of occupational skills. (SK)