Discusses the School to Work Opportunities Act of 1993, which was designed to create a system of career preparation for all young people. Suggests that there is a good fit between high school and two-year colleges as partners in the provision of programs linking school and work. (JOW)

American schools are working to adopt school-to-work programs, spurred by the 1990 Vocational and Applied Technology Act, the 1992 Workforce Readiness Act, and President Bill Clinton's proposed School-to-Work Opportunities Act. Currently, non-college-bound high school graduates are ill-prepared. Like other industrialized countries, the United…

Any long-term solution to improving the American workforce through high school reform must address the fundamental issue behind the press for youth apprenticeships--the need for a formal, national system that brings together industry, government, and education to create a mainstream, high prestige, school-to-work transition program. The proposed…

Suggests that academics from professional communication programs can and should use their programs' connections with the workplace to influence practices in the field. Suggests ways to create more bi-directional educational exchanges. (RS)

Discusses the potential impact of the School-to-Work program, which would involve a series of national assessments administered in fourth, eighth, and eleventh grade to determine students' career majors (based on predicted labor-market needs of the local workforce development area). This equals loss of parental and local control. The new economy…

Describes the American Business and Education Partnership, a national coalition of business and education representatives sponsored by the Association for Career and Technical Education. Offers keys to initiating a successful business/education partnership. (JOW)

Career and technical educators are taking their own initiative and exploiting formal opportunities to practice what they preach to students by gaining first-hand knowledge of the business and industrial workplace. Work-based experiences give teachers knowledge of jobs and industry needs, connections with employers, equipment and resources, and…

Describes a writing project in an honors business-communication class in which the student team became consultants to a health-care business, revising existing collection letters and creating new documents to meet the needs of both patients and insurance companies, in the process preparing proposals, reports, data analysis, and oral presentations.…

Work-integrated learning has the advantages of greater efficiency, lower costs, just-in-time utility, and improved access. Taylorist work structures hinder its realization, and unemployed people are excluded. Informal learning-by-doing is achieving prominence alongside traditional formal training methods. (SK)

West Virginia has become a leader in the national movement called school-to-work. To proponents of the program, bringing the working world to the classroom to help students compete in a rapidly changing, highly technical global economy is essential. But critics fear the process will weaken academics and pigeonhole students into careers based on…

Thousands of today's high school students run FM radio stations at school, carrying on a tradition that began 50 years ago. Radio helps students learn to work with others and develop a strong sense of responsibility. A sidebar gives advice on starting a high school radio station. (MLF)

Outlines implications of the Workforce Investment Partnership Act of 1998 for transition policies in prior legislation, coordination of rehabilitation services at state and local levels, and eligibility criteria. Presents untested assumptions and policy analysis questions to guide reconfiguration of vocational rehabilitation programs. (SK)

Three programs sponsored by the federal government--School-to-Work, One-Stop Career Centers, and America's Career Kit--make it easy to research career options, provide hands-on experiences, determine what kind of training is required and where to get it, submit a resume, and search for a job. (JOW)

Compares registered nurses' wage profiles across three types of educational backgrounds (two-, three-, and four-year programs), allowing for alternative construction of the work-experience variable and correcting for participation selectivity and choice-of-credential biases. Results suggest that estimated wage equations are quite sensitive to the…

Interviews with 20 hospitality graduates with mild disabilities indicated that 90% found employment, but only 45% net an income above the poverty line. Most still hold entry-level jobs and none has completed apprenticeship or traineeship. Most remain motivated to make successful transitions to adult life. (SK)