Discusses the problems and benefits of cooperative education programs at the graduate level. Cooperative education is presented as a necessity given the current level of full-time student attrition, but the point is made that cooperative education must be supported by employer, institution, and student. (CH)

Describes a teaching technique which integrates the conceptual content of sociology with applied fieldwork. Topics include recruiting students and clients, forming student teams, and conducting the project. Discusses implications for teaching within such a program. (JDH)

Three deaf-blind teenage students were placed for four to eight weeks in a community-subsidized work program modeled on the Specialized Training Program. All students generalized assembly and self-help skills in which they had been trained, with peer tutor assistance, prior to placement. Their rates of productivity and supervisor contacts were…

The author discusses means to promote success in the school-to-work transition of disabled students, noting the importance of written transition plans, curriculum collaboration, work experiences, and followup studies. (CL)

Describes the collaboration between business/industry and education facilitated by the Industry Education Council of California (IECC). IECC programs give collaborators successful experience based on how they best work together. (JOW)

Outlines a model business-education program developed to help stop a shortage of competent personnel in the financial services industry. (MD)

The University of Minnesota Technical College at Waseca opened as a year-round, quarter-system agricultural school in 1971 to make effective use of natural outdoor agricultural laboratories during the summer months. Other advantages are greater seasonal flexibility for students planning work experience programs and assisting with farming at home.…

Research for Better Schools, Inc., a Philadelphia-based laboratory, has instituted a program, Academy for Career Education, as an alternative to the typical high school. The aim of the program is to provide high school students with actual work experience to help them make rational career decisions. (KP)

The Employer-Based Career Education (EBCE) Model derives from: (1) an alternative for young people who would like their education to be more directly related to life outside school; and (2) a merger of the best aspects of the academic and vocational curricula. (KP)

California State Engineering and Manufacturing Company was formed by the Department of Industrial Studies in order to provide direct experience with and knowledge of the industrial process for teachers finishing their degree requirements in Industrial Studies. (KP)

Common misconceptions and noncompliance of cooperative education programs in regard to the Federal Wage and Hour Law. (Author)

Experience programs are the training and development arm of the program in agribusiness education. The profession must be united in its belief and conviction that supervised experience programs of high quality are necessary if agribusiness education is to meet its future challenges and responsibilities. (KP)

Schools use a variety of new approaches to build future construction craftsmen. (Editor)

Article describes the changing concern from how to why for total organization development. (MM)

Although participants are convicts still serving time, they hold regular jobs in the community. However, unlike paroled felons, they must spend their nights in a Work Release Community Center. (BH)