A summer work experience program for 10th and 11th graders with visual impairments includes a three-week residential-living experience in which students are evaluated in the areas of daily living, orientation and mobility, socialization, vocational abilities, and career planning and a six-week segment in which students work at paid jobs.…

The Youth Services Training Program in Westport, Connecticut, eases handicapped youngsters through the sometimes anguishing step from school to job. (Editor)

Describes a program designed to stimulate potential dropouts and for making school more relevant to many disadvantaged and previously unmotivated 14- and 15-year-old students. (Author/RK)

This booklet summarizes three forums on current issues related to the use of technology for youth with disabilities. Forum 1, "Accessing the General Curriculum: Promoting a Universal Design for Learning" (November 3, 2001), featured David Rose and Chuck Hitchcock examining how universal design, recent neuro-scientific research, and…

This guide provides an overview of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 to help familiarize legislators with the law and its implementation and to give them information to answer questions from their constituents about the act. The following information is presented: (1) the goals of the act; (2) how school-to-work initiatives work; (3)…

Career education programs involve community people and agencies. Some partners are state consultants, university staffs, advisory committees, and the home. Cooperation of the agribusiness community is emphasized. Coupling of structured curricula and occupational experiences gives the student a perspective on the world of work. (MS)

The career education program at the Appalachia Educational Laboratory enables teenagers to spend their senior years exploring career opportunities alongside local employers. A general conclusion is that although employer-based career education may not be for every student, a significant number throughout the country can profit from this approach.…

A community internship program, a school-within-a-school, an educational park, an open school, and a drop-out school all offer new approaches to social education. (KM)

The EBCE task is to develop within three to five years a body of experience and research data that would document the feasibility of an entire alternative secondary education system, harnessed to the career education ideal and drawing its curriculum from the life of the adult community. (Authors)