Existing research on student employment focuses on the impact of work on persistence and degree attainment. This study, however, pays special attention to how work affects students' college experience. Blending quantitative and qualitative methods, the study examines the difference between working and nonworking students in their academic and…

This information brief explains the Transition Service Integration Model, an approach to integrating service systems at the point of transition for youth with significant disabilities. It explains that the Transition Services Integration Model is designed to combine the resources of school and postschool systems in sharing the costs of a…

Youth represent one of the most culturally diverse groups in Canada. It has been shown that labour market participation among immigrant youth, especially those who are members of a visible minority, has been lower than the Canadian-born. Using the 1996 Census, this paper provides an overview of labour market attachment of immigrant and visible…

This guide to work-based learning and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is designed to serve employers, educators, agency placement staff, labor organizations, and persons involved in school-to-work initiatives by helping them to understand a variety of issues related to students in the workplace. The first part of the three-part guide covers…

Technologically advanced nations are now experienceing strong social pressures for greater flexibility in the formal education and career planning of youth and adults. Vocational psychologists will need to determine whether their models and empirical data are still relevant for solving problems in repidly changing societies. (Author)

Unable to afford a standard vocational education program, a small town Michigan school enlists local business firms to fill the gap. (Editor)

Examines the role played by ability in determining earnings differentials along both the earnings profile for given levels of schooling attainment and across schooling levels. (RJ)

Students developed methods of self instruction in a school where teachers did little teaching; helping each other was forbidden by school rule, but provided students with their major means of learning. (JB)

Describes development and operation of work experience program for eighth graders, run by the school guidance department. (SP)

The New Horizons Project provides 300 Des Moines inter-city junior high school students, who possess skills but are not making satisfactory academic progress, with work-study, extra guidance, and individual attention in an effort to increase their chance of vocational, social, civic and academic success. (Author/JG)