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Download full textBrown, Bettina Lankard – 1998
This newsletter attempts to clarify the importance of academic and vocational integration in relation to emerging pedagogy, teaching and learning practices, and school-to-work efforts. One misconception about academic-vocational integration is that new theories overshadow its value. However, current research on teaching and learning supports a…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 1997
Concerns over the quality of education in the United States and the increasing demands of international competition have resulted in increased calls for the development and implementation of industry-based skill standards. A series of 22 pilot projects that were initiated by the National Skills Standard Board to strengthen the education-employment…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Annotated Bibliographies, Competence
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2003
Entrepreneurship, or small business ownership, is an increasingly attractive option to young people and adults (including low-income populations, at-risk youth, and women) who are striving to find careers that are exciting to them and offer the potential for personal and financial success. Entrepreneurs must be self-starters, innovative, willing…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Business Education, Career Development, Decision Making
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2003
Increasing globalization has spotlighted a range of international approaches to career and technical education (CTE), including the German dual system, the British National Vocational Qualifications and General National Vocational Qualifications, and Australia's Vocational Education and Training and Technical and Further Education systems. Across…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Apprenticeships, Comparative Education
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2002
Teachers responsible for transforming their vocational education programs into career and technical education (CTE) programs need to concentrate on ensuring programs' technical and academic rigor, engaging in collaboration in school and in the community, keeping current through professional development experiences, and extending learning beyond…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Change Agents
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2002
Federal funding from the School to Work Opportunities Act (STOWA) has ended. There is no doubt that state policy to advance activities started under STOWA will be a major factor in the sustainability of School to Work. Already some states have taken the initiative for bringing higher standards to education by offering incentives for businesses to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Standards, Attendance
