A conceptual basis within which all sponsors of community and continuing education can cooperate is proposed in this paper. Such cooperative agencies would include community colleges, school districts, community park and recreation departments, YWCA's, YMCA's, public and private four-year institutions, vocational-technical institutes, and all…

This handbook includes suggestions, guidelines, and techniques for helping a school or school district in planning and managing a system for involving the local community in career education activities for students in grades K-12. Guidelines cover initial planning and organization through implementation and evaluation. A coordinated, systematic…

This handbook includes information, ideas, and methods to help the teacher effectively use community resources in career education and focuses on relationships between curriculum subject areas and careers. Two major sections are included. The first section is a discussion of the role of community resources in career education, covering goals of…