Examines the concerns of Kalamazoo College (Michigan) seniors about job security as they approach graduation. Many of the liberal arts school's students seek security over financial success. Kalamazoo programs help prepare graduates with off-campus work experience and exposure to career options. (MSE)

Sponsored by the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's annual Summer Science Honors Academy is a hands-on experience in science for secondary school students and teachers from throughout Appalachia. The program inspires students to pursue scientific careers and provides teachers with ways to integrate…

The Senior Program at the private Blake School (Minnesota) gives all students an opportunity to create, plan, and execute their own educational program, a structured learning experience that reflects the individual student's personality and interests. It was developed to engage students at the end of their senior year and to assist in the…

Alpha High School in urban Gresham (Oregon) houses a school-to-work program and was designed, with student involvement, as a business. Movable walls and cabinetry provide the flexibility to accommodate general assemblies, combine classes for team teaching, or break classes up into small working groups. A business lab enables businesses to set up…

Four community colleges in Western Massachusetts--Berkshire Community College (BCC), Greenfield Community College (GCC), Holyoke Community College (HCC), and Springfield Technical Community College (STCC)--have created a collaborative Web site, at www.healthprograms.org, to present information on allied health associate degrees or certificate…

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's Career Major Project (CMP) is a statewide effort to modify the educational system to help students develop meaningful career goals through their learning experiences in high schools, technical colleges, and universities. This document presents materials used in the project, containing information on…

A 50-minute program on careers and trends in the economy was created for presentation to high school students. Designed to be attention-getting as well as educational, it includes activities to introduce students to a cluster of economic concepts, data, and tools related to career selection. Pairs of college students are trained to make the…

The Walton High School (New York) Pre-Teaching Program, established in 1984, involved approximately 25 teachers and interns. Student interns did classroom clerical tasks, worked individually with students, and taught lessons. A State Incentive Grant for a Consortium for Educational Mentorship provided an opportunity for further development of the…

The Educators-in-Industry project described in this document is sponsored by the General Electric Foundation to offer experience in the business and industrial world to educators. In Hawaii, where General Electric has no factory facilities, other businesses provide job shadowing sites for administrators, counselors, and K-12 teachers. Over 100…

This packet contains four quarterly newsletters covering Summer 1988-Spring 1989, published by the Dane County, Wisconsin, Education for Employment project. The newsletters contain various articles about the Education for Employment project, including reports on successful school-business partnership programs and notices of upcoming…

Career education for the severely physically disabled in grades kindergarten through 12 is offered by Human Resources Center, Albertson, New York. The center views career education as a broad developmental process and is responsive to the individual's current developmental stage and experiential background. The development process of the severely…

Effective use of career resource centers (CRCs) is dependent upon having good resources, good organization and management of the resources, purposeful access strategies (a variety of assessment activities and materials), and meaningful utilization of the information. Assuming that CRCs have good resources and are well organized and managed, a more…

A description of the project, its development process, evaluation results, and exportability are included in this overview of WORK-ED (World of Related Knowledge and Educational Development), a program to provide ninth grade students both basic skills in communication and exposure to twelve career clusters. Introductory sections describe the…

The English curriculum for grades 10-12 at Kansas High School, a small rural school in Eastern Illinois, consists of mini-courses with an enrollment of 7-20 students. Students must pass the ninth grade English course before they are permitted to register for mini-courses; they are required to take English as sophomores and juniors. During this…

A middle school program in Phoenix, New York, was planned to provide for trainable and low functioning educable mentally retarded students in an integrated setting. Cooperation between the planning team and the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation resulted in a program for 13 students aged 11 to 14 with four major areas of concentration: social…