A reorganization of education is advocated in which schools teach not only intellectual skills but also other nonintellectual skills that can be learned through active participation in the occupational institutions of society. (Author/JB)

Describes an innovative program launched at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, to forestall dropping out'' by longtime underachievers. (EA)

The "Office of Career Planning Placement was founded to "enable the College to accomplish its stated goals of broad general education for citizenship, vocational usefulness, adequate preparation for professional school, and training in the ideals of service. The six functions toward that end are discussed. (Author/AD)

Vocational educators must have good labor market information to make useful plans for vocational education, develop realistic curriculum, and counsel students effectively. There is little cooperation between coordinators and those who find work stations for training purposes. (Available from W. C. Publications Inc., P.O. Box 1578, Montclair, NJ…

This article proposes a course in career education as a method of integrating the various elements of career education for marketing students. Discusses student self-assessment, career awareness, skills development, career planning and placement, the written career plan, seminars, professional organizations, and work experience programs. (CT)

Describes and evaluates a program, the Serowe Brigades, which has given many underprivileged high school students in Botswana, Africa basic education and training and has helped them understand the means of production in a developing nation. Concludes that the program has succeeded as a first step in extending technical training on a massive scale…

Focusing on a high school agricultural cooperative education program, the author presents guidelines for supervisory visits and for the selection of good training stations. The benefits of cooperative programs to the student, community, school, and employer are listed. (LRA)

The author states that education is the primary delivery system for the labor market but that there still exists a need for a comprehensive community-based education-work program. He describes the industry-education council concept providing system-wide linkages between educational and community resources and discusses industry-education council…

Describes the cooperative engineering internship program of the University of Louisville's J. B. Speed Scientific School. The mandatory and highly organized program features preparation in technical communications, and mid-internship evaluations. (WB)

Shows how schooling and work experience programs are integrated in China. Emphasizes that the socialist work ethic is the basis for all educational activities. Discusses attempts of Chinese educators to find the best formula for combining labor and formal study of academic subjects. (DB)

The cooperative program used at Sycamore High School, Sycamore, Illinois, for 24 years has been integrated with career education to provide student experience in many occupations in a cluster and to permit progression toward a specific occupation and attain salable skills. Grades 9-12 curriculum is based on a series of career orientation and…

Experience-Based Career Education finds a comprehensive curriculum existing outside school walls; it restructures the educational environment to take maximum advantage of direct experience and of community institutions' special capabilities for preparing youths for adulthood. Staff, student, and community resource person roles are defined and…