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Download full textSan Mateo Community Coll. District, CA. – 1974
This document presents a comprehensive overview of cooperative education programs in the San Mateo Community College District. There are three plans which provide regular work experience related to college studies and career goals. The Alternative Semester pattern allows two students to hold one full-time position by exchanging work and study…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Educational Objectives, Employment Opportunities
Heath, G. Louis – 1970
The author examines the data from the Richmond Youth Project. Questionnaires were administered to and completed by 4,077 students in the eleven public junior and senior high schools. The students were categorized by degrees as rebel or nonrebel according to three criteria: (1) whether they had stayed away from school just because they wanted to,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Individual Differences, Individual Instruction, Individualized Instruction
Frankel, Steven M.; And Others – 1973
Information gathered from questionnaires, interviews, and on-site visitation is presented for 50 representative program sites in the United States at which work education projects are in operation. A summary of each program's history, organization, goals, student and faculty composition, work environment, and mode of operation is provided. Each…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Programs, Educational Innovation, Job Training
Peer reviewedWine, Mary Butera – Business Education Forum, 1979
The author states that work-study and work-experience programs provide valuable experience in business offices and that teachers should find ways to provide these experiences for students. Suggestions include visiting local business firms, having businessmen and others as guest speakers, and a job fair for prospective graduates. (MF)
Descriptors: Business Education Teachers, Experiential Learning, Office Occupations Education, Postsecondary Education
MOORE, JAMES W. – 1963
STEP IS A PART-TIME SCHOOL, PART-TIME WORK PROGRAM DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF POTENTIAL SCHOOL DROPOUTS 15 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. PUPILS ATTEND SCHOOL IN THE MORNING AND WORK IN THE AFTERNOONS. THE TEACHER-COORDINATOR PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE AND MEETS WITH A GROUP OF 15 TO 20 PUPILS DAILY TO "ORIENT" THEM TO SCHOOL AND WORK EXPERIENCES.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Job Training, Part Time Employment
Nixon, William J., Jr. – 1975
This resource guide is designed to provide the reader with information about work experience programs in Rhode Island and other states. The first section consists of a prototypic model (which was developed in cooperation with educators and other personnel concerned with work experience programs) for making work experience-based vocational…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives
Iowa State Career Education Advisory Council, Des Moines. – 1974
The State of Iowa Advisory Council on Career Education has elected to investigate each year one specific component or element of vocational and career education in the State, rather than undertake a comprehensive review. The topic of the 1974 report is cooperative work-study programs in the State. The Council collected information and observations…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Annual Reports, Career Education, Cooperative Education
Orata, Pedro T. – 1972
An innovative approach toward providing an opportunity for high school education in the Philippines that could also serve as a model in the developing countries is described in this volume. In small rural areas of the Philippines where education at the high school level had been unobtainable for most, communities established, supported, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Development, Educational Finance, Educational Innovation
Epstein, Jerome – 1972
The project described in this document was designed as an experiment in career education in the health field. The 3-year program offered students in three Los Angeles high schools and one Long Beach high school an introduction to health careers in the first year, work experience in the second, and cooperative or work-study education in the third.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Education
Turner, Solveig M., Ed. – CIHED Newsletter, 1981
This issue--an international overview of cooperative/work experience education--contains ten case studies and four student viewpoints. It begins with an article discussing types of cooperative/work experience programs, including those focused on in the case studies. A second article previews the Second World Conference on Cooperative Education.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Cooperative Education, Higher Education
New York Univ., NY. Center for Field Research and School Services. – 1973
The High School Redirection Program was designed to maintain 240 potential dropouts in an educational-vocational setting while assisting them to progress toward a high school diploma. Students were admitted from 13 high schools in Brooklyn and from Andrew Jackson in Queens. They were to follow a work-study program through the summer and regular…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Records, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Center for Urban Education, New York, NY. – 1972
The Satellite Academies Program (SAP) is considered to have the following central goals: (1) to improve basic academic skills, (2) to provide meaningful work experience, (3) to develop a job-related educational curriculum, (4) to involve the business community in education, (5) to increase student involvement in the educational process, and (6) to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Employment Qualifications, High Schools
Peer reviewedDube, Paul E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1990
Described is cooperative education, a strategy for relating education and work. The benefits, growth in cooperative education, and labor market studies are included. Appended is a list of cooperative education training and resource centers and their directors. (KR)
Descriptors: Achievement, Chemistry, College Science, Cooperative Education
Stromsdorfer, Ernst W. – 1973
The educational performance of 690 14 and 15 year old dropout prone students given limited labor market experience was evaluated in a mationwide study. The students worked 28 hours per week during the 1971-72 school year, which was found to be excessive. Working increased grade point averages up to a point, after which favorable impact declined or…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Cooperative Education, Dropout Attitudes
Neighborhood Youth Corps (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1966
THIS SUMMARY OF DUNLAP AND ASSOCIATES' EVALUATION REPORT, PREPARED BY STAFF OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (NYC), REFLECTS THEIR INTERPRETATION OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE REPORT. DATA WERE COLLECTED FROM QUESTIONNAIRES ADMINISTERED TO SAMPLES OF 789 TERMINATED AND 942 ACTIVE ENROLLEES IN 30 RANDOMLY CHOSEN RURAL AND URBAN, IN- AND OUT-OF-SCHOOL,…
Descriptors: Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts, Employer Attitudes
