Describes a corner restaurant and store in Worcester, Massachusetts, where high school students staff and help supervise. (JOW)

Among the strategies for teacher improvement at Des Moines Area Community College (IA) are workshops, internships, industrial work experience, cross training, and industrial visitation. (SK)

The Professional Business Teacher Internship program helps teachers in Utah keep pace with new technology by giving them hands-on work experience in some of the most modern offices in the state. (JOW)

Comprehensiveness is the key to the success of Job Corps programs. Corps centers attempt to rectify deficiencies in social attitudes, self-esteem, drug/health problems, and work habits, while providing intensive skill training and work experience to economically and educationally disadvantaged youth. (SK)

Minuteman Vocational Technical School in Lexington, Massachusetts leases school space to McDonald's for a restaurant which also serves as a food service laboratory for students in the culinary arts hospitality management program. The school has also benefited from the renovation of its facilities by McDonald's. (SK)

Describes the Technical Scholar Program which recruits top high school students for demanding technical careers. Besides giving gifted students an opportunity to get paid for work related to their studies at Greenville Technical College, some employers offer scholarships for advanced education to top technical scholars. (JOW)

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)

Using actual events, the authors show how vocational students and the community benefit by learning experiences conducted beyond school walls. Lists 20 ideas for energizing advisory councils, and examines a contract that helps ensure success for special needs students in work experience programs. (CT)

The Orange County Technology Exchange Center brokers information county-wide between eight community colleges and four regional occupational training programs and technologically oriented programs. The Center has four main goals: (1) act as a clearinghouse to develop needed training programs, (2) promote and coordinate training resources, (3)…

The author describes his observations on Chinese society and education during his 1978 visit with the official delegation of United States educators. He notes what Americans would consider primitive facilities and programs, the tremendous problems of China's size and population, and the overriding influence of political concerns on education. (MF)

Youthwork, Incorporated, was created by the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) to keep track of youth employment and training programs. Privately-owned Youthwork administers federal demonstration grants across the country to help provide job guidance, work experience credit, private sector involvement, and…

Discusses how labor and education can work together to help young people train for jobs, hold jobs, and continue their education. Focus is on state agencies coordinating provisions of the Youth Employment Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 and CETA/YEDPA programs. (MF)

Describes strategies implemented in New York City to make vocational education available to more students: (1) creating vocational programs in comprehensive and academic high schools and (2) expanding and diversifying programs and facilities in vocational high schools. Several alternative programs among the schools provide for sharing limited…

Describes several alternative education programs in Boston and New York City for inner-city youth which provide positive work experiences at various job sites as well as academic credit. Emphasizes the importance of private industry involvement and support in project and individual successes. (MF)

Pittsburgh Public Schools' student placement coordinator describes their program to help secondary students and school leavers with cooperative, part-time, and later full-time job placement, using behavior modification and cooperative education. Includes program organization, use of paraprofessionals, funding, and the importance of employer…