A project was conducted by the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, to train deaf, multiply handicapped students in job readiness skills and to place them in work experience programs. The one-year project served 17 multiply handicapped, hearing-impaired students, 18 to 20 years old, who were enrolled in the Special Unit program…

Service horticulture, a many-faceted industry providing job opportunities for people of differing abilities, is taught in Cleveland in eight high schools and one special horticultural education center; costs are reduced by coordinating with other school programs. Right to placement in industry for work-study must be earned by students. (AJ)

This manual is designed to help in the development of community training programs modeled after Project Bridges of the Somersworth, New Hampshire, school system. An introduction briefly describes the program in which high school students spend ten hours per week at community training sites where they work directly with a training site supervisor…

Sets forth a proposed university/industry/government cooperative aero educational program to combat present curriculum deficiencies in existing programs. The basic proposal urges professor/engineer exchanges, work study programs, government/industry input into curriculum and surplus equipment funneled into the educational program. (BR)

Resulting from a study that examined ways to implement community-based learning activities into postsecondary curriculum, this sampler contains detailed descriptions of selected courses in the social sciences and humanities that illustrate some of the ways classroom learning is augmented through the use of planned, off-campus learning activities.…

Although women are entering the work force in record numbers, little is known about their work lives. An understanding of educated women's attributions as to the reasons for changes in their work history and the effect of these attributions on work experience is needed. A secondary analysis was conducted for a longitudinal data set consisting of…

The report evaluates Texas' Multiple Careers Magnet Center (MCMC), a part time program to provide special education secondary students with career training. It is explained that students enter one of six career education clusters: furniture repair and upholstery, general construction trades, building and grounds maintenance, laundry and dry…

Toronto high school students were surveyed to determine some of their desires and experiences concerning work. (This report is the first of three on a study of Toronto secondary school students' attitudes toward work and unemployment.) Of 34,270 questionnaires sent, 29,499 usable responses were received, or 86% of the enrolled students. The data…

The project described is part of a followup to the Swedish university reform of 1977, of which the emphasis on work experience is a central feature. The purpose is to document Swedish and other nations' conditions for using work experience in some college curricula. Theoretical background for the study is described, treating work experience not as…

The paper describes the Related Vocational Instruction (RVI) and Career Employment Experience (CEE) Programs at a Georgia high school and explains how the programs cooperated to better serve the needs of the educable mentally handicapped students in the school. The goal of the RVI program is to provide secondary handicapped students with job entry…

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS CAN USE THIS HANDBOOK IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF REGULATIONS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARDS FOR WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION. INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS--(1) WHAT IS WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION, (2) WHAT FACTORS MUST BE CONSIDERED BEFORE STARTING A WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION PROGRAM, (3) WHAT STEPS SHOULD…

THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (NYC), A PART OF THE WORK-TRAINING PROGRAM AUTHORIZED BY THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964, FIRST ENROLLED YOUTH DURING THE LATTER PART OF DECEMBER 1964. THIS REPORT COMPARES SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FIRST 50,000 ENROLLEES AND THEIR HOUSEHOLDS TO THE GENERAL CATEGORY OF POVERTY-STRICKEN HOUSEHOLDS…