The federal government has initiated attempts to establish a leadership and facilitating role for career education, encouraged by President Ford. Other federal efforts to bring labor, business, and education into a more integrated framework are also discussed. (Author/PG)

Article recommends six steps that community colleges and technical institutes should follow in establishing apprenticeship training as part of a curriculum that will provide an alternative for the student not interested in traditional degree programs. (Author/RK)

This article describes how middle school students in China serve agriculture. Students are involved in inventing lamps which destroy insects, in surveying, and in mapping out underground pipelines and locations for pumps and spraying nozzles in a sprinkling system. (Author/RM)

This study was conducted to determine what needs to be done to make work assignments for student trainees in a cooperative education program at the U.S. Army Missile Command interesting and challenging enough to assure the maximum retention of these students as full-time employees when they graduate. A questionnaire and evaluation form was devised…

This article describes a school-run factory for third-year junior students in China. The factory combines education with productive labor and integrates theory with practice. Students learn and at the same time create wealth for the state. (Author/RM)

This article describes the educational program developed by one agricultural college in a rural area of China to carry out the revolution in education. Educational theory and practice are linked by involving students in the running of three forms.

A student owned and operated industrial organization of college juniors and seniors in technology, business administration, and economics invented, designed, manufactured, and marketed a new product. The concept and program are described and evaluated. (MS)

Although community colleges have a relatively short period of time to help students learn about society and themselves, the students can gain personal meaning from the concepts and information of course material through related, practical experience. Colleges may, therefore, find it beneficial to incorporate community service experience into the…

This compendium contains descriptions of 59 community action projects that receive academic credit from 48 colleges and universities. Brief descriptions are given of the diverse institutions offering such field work for credit, including information on enrollment and type (i.e., public, private, etc.). Although the characteristics of the programs…

An educational program draws together students from several secondary schools in one region in a labor practicum which combines training shops, classroom work, and laboratory experience. Examples are presented of schools throughout the USSR which are training pupils to be computer and machine operators, construction workers, cooks, automotive…

This article describes the educational reform begun in Guinea in 1959 and assesses the progress made as a result of the continual improvement of the reform. The basic principle of the reform is to aim at life-oriented schooling. (Author/RM)

Compares educational philosophies in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe with regard to relationships between school and the workplace. Concludes that work study programs are more accepted in the United States and the Soviet Union than in western Europe, where they are generally restricted to less intellectual pupils. Available…

Industry-school partnerships are needed to help students, especially urban youth, become acquainted with the realities of preparing for employment and with the processes of finding a job, staying employed, and moving on through training to improved productivity and earning power. This report suggests considerations for organizing such partnerships…

The first chapter of the literature review describes the Career Intern Program (CIP), a cooperative career education venture of the Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America and two Philadelphia high schools, which is composed of three steps: career awareness (general orientation, development, motivation); career exploration (academic…