Describes an innovative program launched at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, to forestall dropping out'' by longtime underachievers. (EA)

The "Office of Career Planning Placement was founded to "enable the College to accomplish its stated goals of broad general education for citizenship, vocational usefulness, adequate preparation for professional school, and training in the ideals of service. The six functions toward that end are discussed. (Author/AD)

Vocational educators must have good labor market information to make useful plans for vocational education, develop realistic curriculum, and counsel students effectively. There is little cooperation between coordinators and those who find work stations for training purposes. (Available from W. C. Publications Inc., P.O. Box 1578, Montclair, NJ…

Examines sources of disillusionment and uncertainty in college students' career thinking. Suggests effective vocational counseling may be analogous to survival training. Discusses essential ingredients for career survival including self-responsibility, awareness of values, work knowledge, and work experience. (RC)

Summarizes recommendations of a study exploring issues of job preparation, program quality, and job market accessibility for disadvantaged youths. Discusses the role of the secondary school, job training and skill development programs, and cooperative education and work experience programs. Provides suggestions for delivery of counseling services.…

This article proposes a course in career education as a method of integrating the various elements of career education for marketing students. Discusses student self-assessment, career awareness, skills development, career planning and placement, the written career plan, seminars, professional organizations, and work experience programs. (CT)

An activity designed to develop a career information resource for students had results of also increasing student faculty communication at a junior high school. The counselors asked faculty members to list all their previous work experience in order to set up a resource file of first-hand occupational information. (Author/CC)

If educators and employers operate on the assumption that learning can occur in a variety of settings for different purposes, higher education-business collaboration can extend the resources of both and create new opportunities for learners. Specific FIPSE projects are noted. (MLW)

College seniors graded lecturers on teaching and course effectiveness. After the students had graduated and been working for a year, they rated teaching effectiveness for former lecturers and nominated the best and worst teachers. Increasing maturity and job experience did not significantly alter student evaluations of relative teaching…

This paper poses a research question about how a person's work experience affects his or her earnings and shows how the Cumulative Experience Method (CEM) can provide an answer to the question using all available information in a longitudinal data set. (Author/GDC)

This discussion of the German curriculum project, "Work in an Historical Dimension", includes an analysis of the project's philosophical underpinnings as well as descriptions of its objectives, content (images and global realities of work from the 7th century to the present) and its successful implementation in a comprehensive school.…

Describes and evaluates a program, the Serowe Brigades, which has given many underprivileged high school students in Botswana, Africa basic education and training and has helped them understand the means of production in a developing nation. Concludes that the program has succeeded as a first step in extending technical training on a massive scale…