Work-Based Learning (WBL) has been at the heart of school-to-work initiatives in the 1990s. Local partnerships funded by the 1994 School-to-Work Opportunities Act are placing high priority on developing WBL opportunities for students. However, there is still controversy about whether work really contributes to students' education, and results of…

A study adopted a sociocultural perspective to examine work-based learning (WBL) in different types of programs in Los Angeles that served similar populations of mostly minority students. The programs were a transportation career academy, a medical magnet high school, and a school-based enterprise. To understand workplaces as learning…

This journal issue focuses on a variety of Appalachian occupations, particularly but not exclusively, coal mining. The lead article is an interview with John Sayles about his movie, "Matewan." Sayles sees the Matewan massacre as a great movie theme, "like a classic American Western...but with a difference--the violence was…

Designed to assist local education agency representatives and prime sponsors of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs in initiating and implementing awarding of academic credit for work experience, this report reviews the issues evolving from the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. Three major sections…

This report contains 23 tables reporting the differences between men and women in lifetime labor force attachment, occupation, and earnings. The information was collected from a sample of approximately 20,000 households in May, June, July, and August 1984, as part of the Survey of Income Program Participation. The first part of this report…

The work experiences of college presidents, deans, and midlevel administrators are examined, with attention to job characteristics, degree of participation in college decision making, loyalty and commitment to the school, and job satisfaction. Extrinsic variables of the work environment include workload, rewards, supervision, and opportunities,…

Since the mid-1970s, schemes that provide links between education and business have burgeoned in Scotland. In 1992, the Scottish Office Education Department (SOED) decided to fund a research project that aimed to map and analyze the range and complexity of education-industry links in Scotland and to suggest the most fruitful areas for future…

This report presents detailed social and economic characteristics of the United States population below the poverty level in 1984 based on the March 1985 Current Population Survey. Poverty data are cross-classified by such characteristics as race, family relationship, type of residence, education, work experience, and type of income received.…

This business education journal contains two articles and three class activities related to teaching business skills relevant to today's economy. The first article, "Skills for a Changing Economy," provides an overview of the skills needed in today's business environment. According to the article, as many as half of recent high school graduates…

This report presents data on the 1986 income and poverty status of families and persons from 60,500 households in the United States. Among the variables examined are the following: (1) race; (2) Hispanic origin; (3) sex; (4) age; (5) marital status; (6) residence; and (7) family status. The following highlights are included: (1) for the fourth…

Based on an assumption that research on the treatment components of experiential education programs is useful in understanding and improving them, a study examined the component of student interaction with adults. Focusing on reference group theory (symbolic interactionism), the conceptual framework of the study is founded upon the assumption that…

This report provides results of a study of placements in business and industry by 70 further education (FE) colleges and views of managers in Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) and Education Business Partnerships (EBPs) across England and Wales. Chapter 1 reports that colleges made 848 placements; the most common purposes were upskilling and…

Many college students today are combining their undergraduate studies with some type of paid employment, volunteer work, or internship experience. Estimates show that more than 60 percent of undergraduate students work in paid positions; as many as 26 percent serve as volunteers; and almost 25 percent of undergraduates participate in…

This report presents data from the March 1988 Current Population Survey (CPS) on the income and poverty status of families and persons in the United States for the calender year 1987. The following family characteristics are examined: (1) family income; (2) family composition, race, and Hispanic origin; (3) educational attainment of householder;…

The student magazine of the educational program sponsored by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) is a collection of student writings. The writings are divided into the following topics: life journeys (Our Countries, Coming to the United States, and Our New Country); Our Lives (autobiographies, parents, family, remembering…