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Mindham, Joel; Schultz, Deanna – Career and Technical Education Research, 2019
Work-based learning is a key component of career and technical education programs. A variety of certificated and non-certificated work-based learning programs exist for high schools to implement. Wisconsin's Youth Apprenticeship program is a widely used model of work-based learning in high school Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Apprenticeships, Youth Employment, Employment Potential
Steedle, Jeffrey T.; Hepburn, Andy – ACT, Inc., 2020
GPS Education Partners (GPSEd) is a community-based nonprofit organization and work-based learning intermediary offering a statewide manufacturing youth apprenticeship in Wisconsin. During their one to two years in the program, students meet high school graduation requirements, receive industry-specific and job-specific training, technical…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Success, Academic Achievement, Work Experience Programs
Lerman, Robert I.; Packer, Arnold – Abell Foundation, 2015
Youth transitions to rewarding careers remain a critical problem for America's current and future workforce. In Baltimore, where only one in five graduates of Baltimore City Public Schools matriculates to a four-year college and the unemployment rate for 16 to 19 year-olds is over 40 percent, opportunities to gain meaningful training and work…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Urban Areas, Apprenticeships, Program Effectiveness
Alfeld, Corinne; Charner, Ivan; Johnson, Lisa; Watts, Eric – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2013
This report describes the Year 5 work of the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education's (NRCCTE) Technical Assistance (TA) Academy. In 2011-2012, the TA plan carried out by FHI 360 on behalf of the NRCCTE focused on developing a conceptual base for work-based learning (WBL), a strategy that helps students apply academic and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Workplace Learning, High School Students, Job Skills
Swerman, Richard A.; Wurtzel, Norbert K. – 1977
To determine the competency level required of a one-year graduate from barber school and to obtain information that would enable vocational-technical schools to plan their curriculum to better meet student barber needs, a survey was conducted in Wisconsin of 629 barber shop managers, 75 journeymen, and 200 apprentices. Picked at random, these…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Barbers, Certification, Competency Based Education
Becker, Richard A. – 2003
This document is intended to give Wisconsin teachers and administrators the background knowledge to understand the nuances of the various work-based learning (WBL) programs and determine whether they want to develop one or more new WBL programs in their district or enhance or otherwise customize existing WBL programs. Each of the first 11 chapters…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Child Care Occupations, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Planning