Concerned with aspiration and level of aspiration of 415 girls from Job Corps Center. Both educational and ethnic considerations are to be given in counseling disadvantaged youth. Expresses paucity of professional material devoted to vocational counseling of less than a college prepared person. (Author)

High school dropouts and high school graduates, of which half of each group received vocational training, were compared. Analysis showed that completing vocational training was positively correlated with higher income and job complexity level. Vocational training was a more potent influence on income level than completion of high school.…

A Tennessee vocational-technical school has become a certified paramedical school to help supply to its area badly needed paramedical personnel. (Author)

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)

Discusses 12 major issues and problems that are barriers to optimal vocational rehabilitation services. (Author/EJT)

Among the reasons which can be cited for the failure of students to pursue an occupational course of study are a lack of available school time, a conflict with extracurricular activities, required credits for graduation, and parental attitude toward occupational education. In an effort to skirt these conflicts three counties were selected to pilot…

The beginnings of vocational education are more readily seen during the period 1876-1926. They are characterized by the rise of manual training, trade schools, home economics movements, and agricultural education. The Smith-Hughes Act was passed in response to the demands of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. (EC)

Boatworks, a subsidiary of Stepping Stones Growth Center in Oakland, California, provides work experience to developmentally disabled persons and helps them learn skills useful in private sector jobs. Workers learn job responsibility, quality control, and work safety procedures and are paid according to productivity. (CB)

This study of the status and growth of vocational education in Finland was excerpted from Educational Reform in Finland in the 1970s (Reference Publications 4, Helsinki, Ministry of Education, 1970). (Editor)

The educational and other conditions at the Parks Job Corps Center in Pleasanton, California are analyzed in detail. Drawing on this analysis, the author remarks on the dangers of the trend toward heavy corporate involvement in education. (JB)