Describes a yard, garden, and home maintenance program designed to enable handicapped students to become employable workers. (SB)

Describes a group education plan for school districts and an individual education plan for the disadvantaged learner, as developed in New Jersey. Elements discussed include formulation of the group education plan and implementation of the individual education plan. (CT)

Describes a program in the Dade County (Florida) Public School System which developed career-related courses of study in academic subjects, namely mathematics and language arts. (Editor)

Reports on an observation and questionnaire survey in 120 secondary schools in 24 states focusing on several variables. Suggests the need for better preparation of vocational teachers to identify and take advantage of classroom opportunities for student skill enhancement or reinforcement. (Author/LAM)

In Oklahoma, specialists in mathematics and communications show vocational teachers how to emphasize academic content within their technical area. The program maintains a balance between theoretical and practical teaching so that graduates are prepared for the working world. (JOW)

The book provides suggestions for activities designed to infuse life skills into the basic curriculum for adolescents and older students with disabilities. Modeled after the Life Centered Career Education approach, the book presents activities geared to three domains (sample competencies in parentheses): (1) daily living skills (managing family…

Since about half of all youth neither complete high school nor opt to go to college, schools need to decide what form of occupationally specific education and training (if any) should be offered these youth. This paper first provides a literature review organized around several questions concerning: (1) the economic benefits of occupationally…

The Generic Skills Study was authorized by the Canadian Department of Manpower and Immigration in order to (1) develop a simple and coherent system for the identification of skills used by workers in any occupation, (2) collect and analyze skills from a variety of occupations as a basis for developing occupational training specifications, and (3)…

Generic skills were identified in five categories: mathematical skills, communication skills, reasoning skills, interpersonal skills, and manipulative skills. Workers and supervisors having 82 different occupational titles were then asked to indicate whether they used each of the 191 skills in their work. Results are tabulated to indicate how many…

A questionnaire listing 58 competencies in English was mailed to 432 administrators, vocational teachers, and English teachers in the 38 community colleges and technical institutes in North Carolina which were willing to participate in the study. Respondents were asked to rate the importance of each competency for vocational students preparing for…

Provides a model for the Career Specific Basic Education curriculum development process for joint use by teachers of a career content area and teachers of basic education. Components of the model described are task analysis, preliminary assessment of basic education competencies, the curriculum development team, collecting materials, and…

Discusses literacy and quality of education problems in the United States, provides literacy statistics (including school dropouts and immigrants), and identifies factors contributing to the problem. Presents unencouraging National Assessment of Educational Progress 1980 survey results, links the need for technical literacy to vocational…

Many major studies dealing with high schools agree that schools must press for higher performance standards in basic skills. These studies disagree on the role that vocational education ought to play in public schools. The author offers a checklist of what vocational educators should do to increase their role in shaping new educational policies.…

Peter Drucker discusses current issues in education such as teacher development and encouragement of alternative methods of learning/teaching. (GW)

The perceptions of southern Nevada employers regarding the importance of the Secretary's Commission for Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) workplace basic skills were examined in a survey that was administered to a random sample of southern Nevada businesses. Of the 415 employers who completed the survey, 313 (75.4%) believed that the SCANS skills…