This guide is intended to encourage employers to hire people with disabilities. It notes the value of internship and other work-based learning programs that allow the employer and student to "try each other out." The paper points out that under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers are required to make reasonable accommodations for…

Federal funds are available to encourage the development of programs involving cooperative efforts by education and business and industry to design and implement inservice occupational experience programs for business teachers. (Authors)

Describes the benefits of community-based career education and offers suggestions on setting up a program. Discusses locating and recruiting community resources, placement of students in the community site, follow-up interviews and other liaison activities which help students apply academic knowledge, test the feasibility of plans and develop…

Reviews research on the relationship between youth employment experience and later employment opportunities. Discusses the effectiveness of subsidized work experience programs and emphasizes the need for evaluation research on such programs in order to determine whether they truly prepare disadvantaged youth for the exigencies of the labor market.…

Funded by local businesses and foundations, Cathedral High School's Project LEADER, also known as the career office, provides job placement, graduate followup, career courses, and work study opportunities for its primarily disadvantaged student body in inner-city Boston. (SJL)

Manitoba's STAY program is designed to create employment for "special needs" youth ages 16 to 24: the chronically unemployed, the handicapped, dropouts, native youth, delinquents, and single parents. The program pays participants to work in the private sector or nonprofit organizations and provides them with counseling and tutorial…

Cooperation between business and higher education can help solve problems of future shortages of engineering faculty, can increase hiring of liberal arts graduates with appropriate training programs, can deal with employment cycles by co-op fellowship programs, and can reduce problems relating to EEOC guidelines on employee selection procedures.…

The opinion is expressed that in contemporary liberal education, some assertiveness on the part of liberal arts leadership is long overdue. Project Work-Learn, an effort by Birmingham-Southern College to develop mutuality between liberal arts and the world of work, is detailed. (Author/AF)

It is estimated that some 220,000 students participate each year in cooperative education programs in 1,100 colleges and universities. The cooperative education, or work-study, concept is discussed with focus on the program's major purposes and benefits for the colleges, students and businesses involved. (JMD)

Discusses an experimental program to help solve the problems of securing and training new technicians for wastewater treatment facilities. (CS)

The author suggests that the traditional approach to social studies instruction in grades 9-12 is ineffective and sketches out his view of the ideal program. (KC)

Although cooperative education may be uniquely American, other nations place great importance on relating work and education. Types of programs, calendars and schedules are reviewed, and global patterns are described. (Author/LBH)

Presents an approach to making practical on-the-job work experience of secondary school students part of instruction in social studies. Maintains that social studies classes can serve as a vehicle for students to gain social learning from their work experiences. Includes tables outlining the conceptual framework of this approach. (DB)

Reviews studies on the demand for learning at work, trends on currently working students, and the effects of both school-supervised and not-school-supervised work experiences. Concludes that labor market demands and the number of students currently working present an opportunity to use work as a deliberate learning experience. (FMW)

The Work Experience Program at the American School for the Deaf (Connecticut) involves students with multiple handicaps spending half of their school week in the classroom focusing on language, practical math, social studies, and science, and half their week at jobs, with the teacher serving as job coach and supervisor. (JDD)