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Ulan, S. J. – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1981
Voices concerns about the way the cooperative education program is being handled in Canada. Outlines the history of the program and discusses methods for implementation. (JOW)
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, School Business Relationship, Secondary Education, Work Experience Programs
James, Terrance N. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1979
The article discusses the results and implications of a 1978 study of work study/work experience programs for regular and handicapped secondary students in British Columbia, Canada. (Author/DSL)
Descriptors: Career Education, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Mainstreaming
National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA. – 1973
The report represents an abridged summary of a study which assessed secondary and postsecondary work education programs and suggested ways they might be modified or expanded. A stratified, random sample of 50 work-education sites was drawn for the study from a set of 500 representative programs. Specific occupational training, dropout prevention,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention
CASEY, RAYMOND P.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THE DEVELOPMENT OF VARIOUS WARWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS WORK-STUDY PROGRAMS THROUGH COOPERATION WITH LOCAL BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY LED TO THE CREATION OF THE POSITION OF BUSINESS-INDUSTRY-SCHOOL COORDINATOR (BISC). THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS POSITION IS TRACED. QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE COORDINATOR ARE GIVEN, AND BISC DUTIES ARE OUTLINED. SPECIAL…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Adolescents, Cooperative Education, Federal Legislation
Levy, Margaret – 1994
This report examines how the "good practice" model of work-based learning (WBL) and its tools can be used with students having learning difficulties and disabilities. The model is a partnership model involving three prime partners: production professionals (employers), learning professionals (trainers and teachers), and the…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Job Training
Maitre, Merry; And Others – 1982
The reference guide presents information on placing special education students in the community for "specially designed" career exploration or "specially designed" vocational training in Iowa. Much of the information is in question and answer format. An introductory section provides background on the employee-employer…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Community Resources, Cooperative Education, Disabilities
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
Coordination between Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and vocational education systems can achieve stronger job training and employment opportunities for CETA clients. Through coordination, CETA and vocational education agencies can eliminate duplication of effort in training and other service activities, can augment each other's…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation
Frankel, Steven M.; And Others – 1973
Information gathered from questionnaires, interviews, and on-site visitation is presented for 50 representative program sites in the United States at which work education projects are in operation. A summary of each program's history, organization, goals, student and faculty composition, work environment, and mode of operation is provided. Each…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Programs, Educational Innovation, Job Training
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Wine, Mary Butera – Business Education Forum, 1979
The author states that work-study and work-experience programs provide valuable experience in business offices and that teachers should find ways to provide these experiences for students. Suggestions include visiting local business firms, having businessmen and others as guest speakers, and a job fair for prospective graduates. (MF)
Descriptors: Business Education Teachers, Experiential Learning, Office Occupations Education, Postsecondary Education
MOORE, JAMES W. – 1963
STEP IS A PART-TIME SCHOOL, PART-TIME WORK PROGRAM DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF POTENTIAL SCHOOL DROPOUTS 15 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. PUPILS ATTEND SCHOOL IN THE MORNING AND WORK IN THE AFTERNOONS. THE TEACHER-COORDINATOR PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE AND MEETS WITH A GROUP OF 15 TO 20 PUPILS DAILY TO "ORIENT" THEM TO SCHOOL AND WORK EXPERIENCES.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Job Training, Part Time Employment
Nixon, William J., Jr. – 1975
This resource guide is designed to provide the reader with information about work experience programs in Rhode Island and other states. The first section consists of a prototypic model (which was developed in cooperation with educators and other personnel concerned with work experience programs) for making work experience-based vocational…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives
Epstein, Jerome – 1972
The project described in this document was designed as an experiment in career education in the health field. The 3-year program offered students in three Los Angeles high schools and one Long Beach high school an introduction to health careers in the first year, work experience in the second, and cooperative or work-study education in the third.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Education
Stromsdorfer, Ernst W. – 1973
The educational performance of 690 14 and 15 year old dropout prone students given limited labor market experience was evaluated in a mationwide study. The students worked 28 hours per week during the 1971-72 school year, which was found to be excessive. Working increased grade point averages up to a point, after which favorable impact declined or…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Cooperative Education, Dropout Attitudes
Morales, Jeanette A.; And Others – 1984
Designed to address the need for secondary migrant educators to have access to model secondary programs, the guide highlights some 20 state and national programs that seem to be effective in serving the migrant secondary student. The programs are representative of three types of approaches which have proven to be effective in reducing the migrant…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Advocacy, Counseling Services, Counselor Role
Bryant, Theodore; And Others – 1976
This third volume of the final report on urban cooperative work education programs contains summaries or case studies of the programs in 19 secondary and 11 postsecondary schools throughout the country. (Volume 1, an overview of the entire study, describes the methodology and findings, and Volume 2 is a detailed analysis of the followup study of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Educational Assessment
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