College-based transition services provide opportunities for transition-age students with intellectual disability and autism (ID/A) between the ages of 18 and 22 to receive their final years of secondary transition services in a college or university setting. We compared the extent to which youth with ID/A experience in-school predictors of…

Described is an 8-week vocational program for senior high school special education students in environmental maintenance. (SBH)

A work-study coordinator for educable mentally retarded secondary students discusses pre-vocational training, public relations, the role of work-study coordinators, working with other agencies, employers' expectations, and savings to taxpayers when retarded persons are employed. (CL)

Two carefully planned programs operating within traditional classroom frameworks, have been unusually successful. The first, developed in Stoughton, Massachusetts, a lower middle-class community in the Boston area, uses a field-based approach. The second, initiated in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, an upper middle-class suburb of Philadelphia, employs a…

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)

Considerably broader in scope than the usual cooperative education project, the Community Learning Program at a Florissant, Missouri, high school exposes students to the widest possible range of skills and professions in the area. (Author/MLF)

Conducted a national survey of vocational rehabilitation agencies (N=42) to determine the present status of cooperative work study programs serving mentally retarded secondary students. Results documented a decrease both in formal programs and number of students served. (Author/JAC)

Advocated for junior and senior high school special education students is a work-study curriculum which reflects real-life situations. (CL)

Findings revealed that a relationship existed between the principals' knowledge of and support for work-study programs, and their role performances with regard to such programs. These variables were also found to be directly related to the effectiveness of the work-study programs. (Author/DLS)

The study part of a work-study program may provide an opportunity to attain the real objectives of the program (with the emphasis on student responsibility) and fulfill the role of the work-study coordinator. (Author)

The final report of the 3 year Project CAST (an Appalachia Educational Laboratory adaptation of the Experience Based Career Education Model) in Charles County, Maryland, reviews accomplishments in the areas of student appraisal, individual educational programming (IEP), joint coordination and continuing education, and dissemination and…

The Marshalltown (Iowa) High School offers a model program for mildly retarded students involving simulated work situations, individualized instruction, integration with regular classes, and involvement in a work/study program. (CL)

Many of the problems of our youth today stem from lack of purpose or the feeling of self worth. Skills training at the secondary level could provide this feeling of self worth. Cooperative training programs could supply many high school graduates with the purpose in life they are seeking. (DS)

THE PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM IS TO ENCOURAGE YOUNG STUDENTS TO STAY IN SCHOOL UNTIL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION AND TO DEVELOP THOSE ATTITUDES, HABITS, AND SKILLS THAT PRODUCE RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS AND PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYEES. THE PROGRAM IS AN ATTEMPT TO ASSIST STUDENTS ON THE JUNIOR HIGH AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL. STUDENTS SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE ATTEND…

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)