Describes a vocational school on Chesapeake Bay where students get what amounts to on-the-job training on an amazing array of ships. (Editor/MU)

The Anoka Technical Institute at Anoka, Minnesota, provides a unique supplement to the work experience program for students at Blaine Senior High School. The Institute has developed a program of work adjustment training that serves secondary high school students by developing realistic attitudes towards work, teaching job responsibility.…

The author presents the advantages and disadvantages of a nonpay work experience and decides that the benefits outweight the hazards. (AG)

The experiences of a distributive education teacher in the rural areas of Maine are presented. Cooperative programs were conducted by the school and local businesses in order to train seniors in business and retailing. (EC)

Career education programs involve community people and agencies. Some partners are state consultants, university staffs, advisory committees, and the home. Cooperation of the agribusiness community is emphasized. Coupling of structured curricula and occupational experiences gives the student a perspective on the world of work. (MS)

Fifteen reviews of conference reports, research and demonstration projects, and surveys pertain to the need for and applicability of vocational education for the disadvantaged in general, and specifically for disadvantaged adults and youth, and the handicapped. "Plain Talk," a continuing column by the editor, discusses the need for vocational…

Stating that no vocational education program demands greater commitment from teachers than the work experience program, the author describes from personal experience with the Ohio Occupational Work Experience program the many roles of the teacher-coordinator in keeping the potential dropout in school and employed. (MF)

The author notes differences between private and public training and employment systems and describes various programs in Connecticut and California to educate youth for economic development in elementary, middle, and secondary grades. (MF)

A cooperative office education program at Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, increased its enrollment and work placement of students with the coordinator's treating the program as a year-round process, which is illustrated in her August-through-July schedule of monthly tasks. (MF)

Mexican Americans hail new occupational center. (Editor)

Florida finds an effective combination for attacking the dropout problem. (Editor)

A Wisconsin welding instructor tells how he learned about the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) graduate fellowships in leadership training being offered to vocational personnel, the selection process, and the program of work combined with classes that he experienced in his EPDA year at Colorado State University. (MF)