The impact of vocational education on the recidivism rate of adjudicated youth (n=403) in Colorado followed up 5 years after incarceration was studied. The recidivism rate was significantly lower for those receiving vocational education and significantly higher for those who participated only in academic education. (JOW)

This article offers a rationale for preparing this special issue on academic instruction in learning disabilities, elaborates on the purpose of the series of five papers included, recounts how the series was developed, and introduces the individual articles. The series reveals features of research on interventions and provides guidance in…

Responses from 639 Illinois high schools and vocational centers (96%) indicated that 55% used integration strategies for vocational and academic education; 80% conducted integration-related staff development. However, only 32% give academic credit for vocational courses and most of the strategies used were low level. (SK)

Higher-order thinking skills, based on Bloom's taxonomy, include evaluating, synthesizing, analyzing, and applying. Vocational educators can best develop these skills in the context of their subject matter by developing objectives that reflect the redesigning activities and test students at higher levels of cognition. (SK)

Proposes an alternative way of viewing general education, suggesting that the purpose of education can be viewed in spiritual or religious terms. Applies an ecclesiastic metaphor to portray an education that emphasizes an awareness of assumptions and the process of knowledge acquisition. Discusses teaching practices that facilitate the pursuit of…

Vocational education should not be viewed as a separate content area but as part of an educational delivery system, making it appropriate for every student learning applied competencies. (SK)

Describes the need for learning communities within the context of asynchronous distance education. Highlights include the relationship of community and distance learners; community as social reinforcement and as information exchange; and types of communities, including academic support communities, intellectual support communities, and…

Career academies are specialized high schools that blend challenging academic courses with realistic work experiences. An academy's curriculum organizes academic instruction around an industry or occupational theme and enables students to complete college preparatory courses and acquire work-related knowledge and skill. (Author/JOW)

In the Australian state of Victoria, vocational education and training have been integrated in secondary schools with largely successful employment and postsecondary outcomes. However, changing the academic, college-preparatory culture and attitudes will take more time. (SK)

Describes the curriculum and learning objectives at Academy X, a leadership and humanities school for 11th- and 12th-grade students at Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California, the primary focus of which is a multiweek student internship divided into four components: the meaningful project, the essential question, the onsite…

Integrating academic and career tech curriculum is one of the primary objectives of the Carl Perkins Vocational Education Act (1998 reauthorization) and a guiding principle of the School to Work Opportunities Act. It has proven to be an invaluable approach to teaching, and educators across the nation have experienced firsthand how the application…

Enrollment management has come to be defined in structural terms when what is needed is an understanding of institutional academic context. Concentrating on which offices should be brought together to do enrollment work can lead to being stuck on structure, forcing the institution to reflect enrollment management rather than ensuring that…

Continuing education (CE) units are a diverse blend of philosophical and pedagogical approaches, personal aptitudes, and professional knowledge and skills. The Continuing Education Leadership Matrix model is presented as a conceptual framework for understanding and managing CE practice. The model is useful to leaders and managers working within CE…

This paper argues that the modern curriculum of academic subject disciplines embodies a rationalist conception of pure, universal knowledge that does little to cultivate, humanise or form the self. A liberal education in the classical humanist tradition, by contrast, develops a personal culture or "paideia", an understanding of the self as a…

This paper explores the interaction between religious faith and academic study. It presents findings from a small-scale qualitative study of how first year theology undergraduates at Oxford experienced the relationship between academic study and their faith stance. The findings suggest varied developments in the extent to which students adapted to…