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The First Year of Accelerating Opportunity: Implementation Findings from the States and Colleges
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Anderson, Theresa; Eyster, Lauren; Lerman, Robert I.; Clymer, Carol; Conway, Maureen; Montes, Marcela – Urban Institute, 2014
Launched in 2011, the Accelerating Opportunity (AO) initiative aims to increase the ability of students with low basic skills to earn valued occupational credentials, obtain well-paying jobs, and sustain rewarding careers. AO encourages states to change the delivery of adult education for students interested in learning career skills by enrolling…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Adult Basic Education, Credentials
Communicating Career Education for Rural Appalachia. Annual Report, October 1, 1978, to September 30, 1979.
Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative, Hazard. – 1979
A project was conducted to disseminate career education philosophy, methods, program activities, and evaluation results to career education practitioners and the general public in rural Appalachia. Five major project dissemination tasks were accomplished and evaluated, including (1) visitations to the project and regional schools so that educators…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Community Involvement, Exceptional Persons
Career Education and Basic Education.
Collins, Owen, Ed. – 1979
To provide a reliable correlation of how the "basics" are strengthened by implementing career education units, concepts, and/or skills into existing curricula, the Career Education Project of the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative studied the achievement of career education and non-career education students in reading, mathematics,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Career Education, Comparative Analysis
Taxes Affecting the Worker: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Rankin, Lila T. – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the 9th and 10th grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or common…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Handling Your Paycheck: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Craig, Arthur; And Others – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Budgeting, Career Development, Career Education
Self-Appraisal for Employment: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Hill, Jim; Craig, Arthur – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed expecially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
The Role of Work in Our Society: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Roundtree, Ray; Anthony, Kenneth – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Introduction: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Atkins, Oscar T. – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education
Occupational Safety: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Evans, Clarence; Wills, Richard – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education
Learning About Job Clusters: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Johnson, James L. – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
How to Keep a Job: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Scott, Ernestine; Love, Doris – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Personal Development: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Nordloh, Mary J. – 1973
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Getting a Job: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Atkins, Oscar T.; Delaney, Judith – 1973
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Project EPIC. Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Kentucky.
Kaplan, Carol B.; Preli, Barbara – 1978
This description of career education activities in Jefferson County (Louisville, Kentucky) was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final report of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Involvement