Discusses five key concepts of career-education movement and their implications for education reform: Work, students and teachers as workers, infusion, collaboration, and career development. Also discusses studies evaluating the effectiveness of career-education programs. (PKP)

The history of support between career education and vocational education during the 1970s is examined. Then five major ways in which career education serves to enhance vocational education are presented. Finally, some thought is devoted to implications of "career education/vocational education" relationships for American education in the…

Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) is an autonomous affiliate of a worldwide Jewish volunteer organization. It is dedicated to fighting poverty by providing Jewish youth and adults with vocational skills so that they may become productive members of society. In the past, WAO (Women's American ORT) has made…

This monograph summarizes the thoughts, opinions, and experiences of the participants in the first three seminars of a series of thirty-three sponsored by USOE's Office of Career Education on the subject of collaboration in career education for grades K-12. After an explanation of the term "collaboration" in the introduction, the expected learner…

This monograph summarizes discussions by participants at two mini-conferences who were involved in beginning attempts to implement the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) legislation. The first section presents a historical overview of YEDPA which focuses on a monograph by Garth L. Mangum. Both ineffective and effective program…