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Sheets, Robert G.; And Others – 1991
The Illinois Council on Vocational Education (ICoVE) launched a statewide study in 1990 to understand the perspectives of business and labor on what vocational education can do to prepare the work force with the skills necessary for the future. The study was designed to build new public-private partnerships. It included a survey of businesses and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Career Counseling
Download full textHoachlander, E. Gareth; And Others – 1992
In September 1990, the Commission on Work Force Excellence was established to increase Mississippi's economic competitiveness and improve worker opportunities. The commission sponsored an evaluation of the diverse enterprise of the state's secondary and postsecondary vocational education system. Eight findings resulted from the study. First, the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Accountability, Articulation (Education), Coordination
Butler, Nicholas Murray – 1981
Project EQuality, initiated by the College Board in response to the 17-year decline in high school students' college admissions test scores, is described. The project is an effort to enlist schools and colleges in a cooperative campaign to strengthen the quality of secondary education and to carry further the gains of equal opportunity made over…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills
Elledge, Gerald E. – 1973
East High School's Senior Seminar, a program which allowed groups of senior students to work in the natural environment of the activities or subjects being studied, was evaluated in 1973 by the following indicators: an attitude assessment and appraisal of the program by staff members, parents, and students; a follow-up survey of participants'…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Budgets, Diaries, Dropout Prevention
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. – 1980
The Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs met July 1, 1980, to take testimony on Bill H.R. 6850 which proposed specific statutory authorization for the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), transferred administrative control from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB), and reserved the BIA educational…
Descriptors: Academic Education, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians
Anton, Kristin P. – 1981
This analysis of the high school preparation patterns of the California public high school class of 1975 drew upon sociological literature on status attainment in an attempt to identify specific intervention points at which to enlist minority parents' support for college preparation. Sources of data were: (1) a sample of 1975 public high school…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Asian Americans, Black Students, College Admission
Hu, Teh-wei, And Others – 1968
This study was concerned with the optimum allocation of public resources in education, and involved a comparison between vocational-technical education and an alternative curriculum for non-college attending students. Major steps in the study were: (1) identification of costs and benefits, (2) collection of representative data, (3) determination…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors
Daggett, Willard R. – 2003
The No Child Left Behind Act Career Act's requirement that 100% of students in nine subgroups achieve proficiency in their academic requirements is once again placing career and technical education (CTE) at risk of decreasing student enrollments. If CTE is to remain a viable program in secondary schools, it is essential that CTE leaders and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adjustment (to Environment), Career Academies
Schmidt, B. June; Finch, Curtis R.; Moore, Margaret – 1997
This study identified vocational and academic teachers' involvement in and contributions to school-to-work (STW) transition. The Ethnograph software was used to code and group information from interviews with 199 teachers, counselors, administrators, employers, and community members at 11 sites. Ten teacher activities that contribute to STW…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Education Work Relationship
Seyfried, Erwin; Kohlmeyer, Klaus; Furth-Riedesser, Rafael – 2000
The extent to which network cooperation between the general education system, vocational training institutions, business enterprises, social partners, and political decision makers affects quality development in vocational training was examined through a literature review and synthesis of eight case studies in the following seven European…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Case Studies, Cooperative Planning
Johnson, Terry; Gritz, Mark; Jackson, Russell; Burghardt, John; Boussy, Carol; Leonard, Jan; Orians, Carlyn – 1999
This report presents results of a process analysis that describes and documents Job Corps services and operations. Chapter one provides overviews of Job Corps, the national Job Corps study, and the process analysis. Chapter two describes the administrative structure of Job Corps and presents data on the geographic distribution and characteristics…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Education, Career Exploration, Disadvantaged
O'Shea, Daniel P.; King, Christopher T. – 2000
The activities and services delivered under the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 by the Capital Area Education and Careers Partnership in Austin, Texas, during 1998 and 1999 were evaluated by an independent evaluator, using interviews with 24 persons involved in the project, site visits, and document analysis. The evaluation found that…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Awareness, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Career-Technical and Adult Education. – 2001
This book is designed to help academic teachers in middle or secondary education develop an appreciation of career-focused education and begin the process of designing career-focused instruction. (Career-focused instruction is educational programming in which curriculum content and learning experiences clearly connect to the world of work.) For…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Art, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development
Nebraska State Dept. of Education, Lincoln. – 2001
Career and technical education (CTE) in Nebraska prepares individuals at the secondary, postsecondary, and adult level for entry, advanced, technical, and managerial positions in business and industry. The Department of Education is the designated agency for administration of CTE and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Accountability, Adult Education, Community Colleges
Levesque, Karen; Hudson, Lisa – 2003
This report analyzes vocational/technical (VT) course taking among public high school graduates between 1982-98. It focuses on trends in VT course taking, introductory technology and computer-related coursetaking, and how students combine VT and academic course taking. The report examined high school transcripts for the graduating classes of 1982,…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Preparation, Cooperative Education, Course Selection (Students)
