Guidelines that will help people in the business world together with teachers in marketing and distribution are presented in the document. It offers suggestionsf for implementing a program in cooperative work experience in Oregon. The following topics related to the program are discussed: (1) background of the school, (2) distributive education…

Objectives of the study were (1) to develop and implement an alternative work experience program for a middle school; (2) to test the effect of the program on attitudes toward school, career maturity, and vocational interests of the students; and (3) to provide information and procedures for a model work experience program. Western Kentucky…

This document presents a comprehensive overview of cooperative education programs in the San Mateo Community College District. There are three plans which provide regular work experience related to college studies and career goals. The Alternative Semester pattern allows two students to hold one full-time position by exchanging work and study…

The author examines the data from the Richmond Youth Project. Questionnaires were administered to and completed by 4,077 students in the eleven public junior and senior high schools. The students were categorized by degrees as rebel or nonrebel according to three criteria: (1) whether they had stayed away from school just because they wanted to,…

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…

New Mexico's career education development, testing, and demonstration project operated in the Taos Municipal School District had as its objectives to: (1) develop and implement an elementary school program to increase career awareness, (2) improve guidance and counseling services at all grade levels with special emphasis on career orientation and…

This second edition of an annual summary combines information about the research conducted under contract to the Manpower Administration and the experimental and demonstration programs under the direction of the Office of Research and Development. The merger of the research projects and development programs is now well established and is…

The Work Experience Career Exploration Program (WECEP) is a prevocational exploratory program designed for educationally disadvantaged ninth grade students, emphasizing the cultivation of individual talents, development of social skills, and the recognition of the student as an individual with social and economic worth. In order to evaluate WECEP,…

This course is designed to orient students to the variety of career opportunities which are available to them on a part-time basis, the duties and responsibilities involved in various occupations; and the qualifications necessary for employment in a selected career. The course is aimed particularly at tenth grade students. The instruction received…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a proposed project to further the education of those who leave elementary school. The document is divided into three parts: (1) a project for the further education of pupils who have completed the elementary grades; (2) curricula of work experience activities to be…

This report presents the results of a study of approximately 2400 young people who, for 8 weeks in the summer of 1971, participated in the first part of a three-year Youth Conservation Corps Pilot Program. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the impact of the program on the young people in regard to environmental education, social…

Describes the background of the federally led, locally focused Work and Education Initiative, the name given to the combined efforts of the Departments of Labor, Commerce, and Health, Education, and Welfare to help young people make the transition from school to work. Activities of the community education-work councils are summarized. (MF)

Attitudes of 38 work-experience employers toward the employability of high school special education students were studied. Employers had positive attitudes toward the employment potential of mildly handicapped students and stated that their participation in the work experience program increased the likelihood that they would hire a special…

Compares youth unemployment rates between the United States and other countries, and concludes that more responsibility can be taken by the schools to improve school-to-work transitions for students. Advocates apprenticeship and skills training, practical experiences, increased emphasis on career counseling and counselor liaison activities with…

Examines implications of vocational education programs through investigations of Ontario education work experience programs. Argues that work programs provide opportunities for a critical counter-hegemonic pedagogy and the ethnographic investigations of such programs are valuable as a source of both a theoretical analysis of schooling and an…