The author discusses two essential ingredients of a school program for behaviorally handicapped adolescents--the work experience program and group evaluation meetings. It is noted that these components help to provide experiences and develop behaviors that are relevant to the world of work and meet the unique needs of the young adolescent…

St. Viator High School, through a Business Management Seminar, converted job experiences into learning experiences by acknowledging the real value of the job as a laboratory for the study of principles of management and their application to the job. (Author/BP)

Russian attempts at on-the-job training ended in 1964 due to high cost, lack of teacher commitment, increased student dropouts, and philosophical discord among educators. (DW)

The contribution of client and counselor verbal activity, client and counselor sex, and counselor experience to satisfaction and symptom relief was examined. Clients seeing experienced counselors reported better outcomes. Neither sex nor activity of the therapeutic participants contributed to therapeutic success. (Author)

The author discusses the development of "special correctional school districts" that attempt to provide educational services in correctional institutions. There remains a need to identify the role of education as a necessary part of the rehabilitation effort. Several programs are briefly described. (Author/JB)

This article was adapted from a paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois, February 8-10, 1968.

Five Youth Employment and Demonstration Program Act (YEDPA) programs are compared with the Career Intern Program (CIP) (an alternative high school program aiming to prepare dropouts, and those likely to abandon school, for employment) in terms of emphasizing issues related to program implementation. The YEDPA programs selected for comparison upon…

Class schedules of 458 handicapped students attending 11 comprehensive high schools in eight school districts were reviewed to examine patterns of enrollment of handicapped students at the secondary level. Academic, nonacademic, vocational, and extracurricular involvement were noted, as well as degree of integration experience by students. Among…

This paper examines the philosophy behind the Pulse Program of Boston College and its attempt at integrating theory and practice and transforming student's paradigms of justice and love. The basic idea of the program, begun in the fall of 1969, is that students receive academic credit for participation in off-campus field projects which have a…

Copies of twelve recordkeeping forms are provided in this record book designed for use by vocational agriculture students in a supervised occupational experience program (SOEP). The forms are organized into three sections: (1) receipts and expenditures (money received, money paid out, cash flow, financial statement, and profit and loss statement);…

AN ORIENTATION PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED TO ASSIST PUPILS IN DEVELOPING ATTITUDES, SKILLS, HABITS, AND UNDERSTANDING IN WORK EXPERIENCE, AND TO PROVIDE ACTUAL JOB EXPERIENCE. OBJECTIVES WERE TO OFFER A PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS 15 YEARS OF AGE WHO HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED AS POTENTIAL EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS. SOME OF THE EXPECTED OUTCOMES WERE ESTABLISHMENT OF A…

Researchers have found that the labor market performance of exoffenders is dismal. The poor post-prison employment experiences of ex-offenders was investigated to determine whether their problems arose from being inexperienced low-skilled workers or from being ex-offenders. The sample was drawn from the Baltimore Life Insurance for Ex-Prisoners…

The standards and procedures presented establish the basic rules governing the development and operation of various programs administered by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Work Programs under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended. Basic standards relate to qualification of sponsors, eligibility of enrollees, hours of work,…

Seniors in Pennsylvania's McKeesport Area Senior High School have the opportunity to spend one semester placed in a local agency, office, or business, in order to learn first-hand the practical aspects of a career or professional field of their choice. During this semester the students normally do not attend daily classes, but meet regularly with…