THE NUMBER OF ADOLESCENTS ENGAGED IN SUPERVISED WORK EXPERIENCE OR WORK-STUDY PROGRAMS THAT PRESUMABLY HAVE BUILT-IN "MEANING" IS QUITE SMALL. ALTHOUGH IT IS CLAIMED THAT MEANINGFUL WORK EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS INCREASES THE HOLDING POWER OF THE SCHOOL, BUILDS CHARACTER, DEVELOPS DESIRABLE HABITS AND ATTITUDES, AND PROVIDES VOCATIONAL ORIENTATION,…

Work experience programs in 18 California junior colleges were studied. Data for the 1962-1963 school year were gathered through personal interviews with representatives of the colleges. Information on the status of approved programs, superior practices, principal difficulties encountered, and suggestions for organizing and conducting work…

Directed to school systems initiating a job placement program, the Atlanta Public Schools (Georgia) job placement manual discusses how a job placement program can provide a transition from school to work for all students leaving the public schools, as well as place students in paid and non-paid part-time work experiences as a part of their…

Suggestions arising from a curriculum development workshop led to a curriculum in hotel-motel management and services for high school students which aims to provide them with an opportunity to explore careers in the lodging and hospitality industries. Students will spend half the time in school study of three required subjects and the other half…

From January to August 1975, Los Angeles Valley College was involved in a Senior Adult Work-Study-Serve project which provided work-study employment for adults over retirement age. In addition to working at part-time jobs at a salary of $2.25 per hour for 15 hours per week, participants enrolled in a three-unit specially developed course, Career…

The guide was intended to provide the information needed to implement or improve an 11th and 12th grade career education cluster program. The authors suggest that the guide will be most useful in schools where a long-range plan for career education has been prepared and adopted by the local board of education, and where it has been decided to…

The document presents suggested guidelines for planning and establishing vocational agriculture programs in South Dakota involving off-farm cooperative occupational experiences. Off-farm cooperative occupational experience programs are defined as utilizing actual on-the-job training in cooperation with an employer and supplementing the job…

A wide variety of experiential programs that may be used to expand educational experiences is presented. These include service learning internships, cooperative education, volunteer programs, field-based, independent study, practice, work study, and University Year for Action. The participants in these proceedings outline the instructional…

The preliminary study explores the feasibility of a voucher system for purchase of skill training by participants in the Work Incentive Program (WIN) and describes the Portland, Oregon voucher system. Time limits on vouchers, voucherable occupations, dollar limits on vouchers, eligibility of clients, eligibility of vendors, timing and financial…

The focus of the third report of the National Advisory Council is on effectively preparing the disadvantaged for full participation in society. The United States has developed into a technological society with no place for the uneducated, unskilled individual. Though the present educational system works well for the majority, 20 percent of the…

Cooperative education depends on employers and educators working together to form a superior total educational curriculum for the student. It is believed that mid-management training, a first-level supervisory position, can be given to the community college. It is also believed that learning takes place because of what the student can be led to…

The author discusses the role of the New Careers training programs within a model city, arguing that the nature of human services in the city must change to meet pressing social needs, and that the essential inhumanity of human services in the city will not be altered if the only change is reassigning activities to the nonprofessional personnel.…

Fifteen reviews of conference reports, research and demonstration projects, and surveys pertain to the need for and applicability of vocational education for the disadvantaged in general, and specifically for disadvantaged adults and youth, and the handicapped. "Plain Talk," a continuing column by the editor, discusses the need for vocational…

Types of work study programs on the secondary level are described, as are federal, state, and local forms, records, and requirements. Over four-fifths of the document consists of appended forms and their explanations. (JD)

Through Project VIGOR, the David Douglas Public School System in Portland, Oregon addressed itself to the objective of changing a conventional academically oriented general education system into one whose curriculum reflected the needs of all students from the primary through the secondary grades and including post-high school contact and…