Bangladesh stresses the importance of education responsive to the country's development needs and capable of producing, through formal or non-formal methods, skilled, employable manpower. Although no pre-vocational training exists, new curricula have introduced practical work experience in the primary schools and have integrated agriculture,…

The first of a three-volume final report, this portion presents an overview of the entire study, which was conducted to assess the effectiveness of secondary and postsecondary cooperative education programs in the nation's hundred largest cities and to analyze the postprogram experiences of participants and nonparticipants. (Volume 2 is a detailed…

In 1992, the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Education jointly developed the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) Career Academy model, which provides a framework for implementation of an innovative vocational education program designed to keep dropout-prone students in school. The program, which combines military…

One of the outstanding characteristics of American secondary education is the emphasis that it places upon individual and social needs. Most educators endorse student extraclass activities as an important way to obtain program flexibility, meet individual needs, and attain desirable education objectives. Among the purposes of this publication are…

The traditional secondary school limited its instruction to full time pupils. Rather than adapt the kind and amount of work to the necessities of the pupil who cannot attend full time, it apparently preferred to have him leave school altogether. While frowning upon an elective system within the school, it felt no qualms in allowing the great…

These proceedings include 13 "perspectives from the field" and 9 selected papers (with abstracts) from a national conference on recommended policies and practices for investing in youth. The 13 perspectives papers are as follows: "Saving the Next Generation" (Berlin); "Effective Strategies for Investing in Youth"…

The Office of Student Support Services (SSS) at Prince George's Community College (PGCC) is an academic support program for at-risk students. Created for low-income and first-generation students and those with physical and learning disabilities, the program provides specialized study tools, tutorial assistance, and social and emotional support.…

This compendium provides information on 39 promising practices in vocational adult education selected during the 1981-82 school year. Criteria for selection are to meet an identified need for a specific problem or target population, measurability of indicators of success, possibility of adaptation by others, and practicality of resources required…

A study examined whether the Career Intern Program (CIP) can be replicated in new sites at reasonable cost within a reasonable period of time. (The CIP is an alternative high school designed to enable disadvantaged and alienated dropouts or potential dropouts to earn regular high school diplomas, to prepare them for meaningful employment or…

Older teens living in families receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) face serious sociodemographic disadvantages. When combined with the characteristic risk-taking behaviors of adolescence, these disadvantages pose a threat to TANF teens' immediate and future physical, psychological, and emotional health and to their long-term…

A project used a mixed quantitative-qualitative approach, drawing from the Job Corps database and site visits at five sites, to generate knowledge that can guide policymakers and program planners as they act to increase retention in the Job Corps or similar programs. Quantitative data on 343,097 students who enrolled in Job Corps between July 1993…

Two innovative approaches to delivering vocational education and training (VET) in schools were examined to identify ways of helping Australia's indigenous students achieve academic success by ensuring a close cultural fit between course content and the realities of local employment opportunities. The first VET-in-School program, which was located…

This report summarizes AISD's evaluation results of its 2003-2004 state compensatory education programs.

This publication provides current descriptions of exemplary educational programs in many areas that meet National Education Goals and Department of Education's Program Effectiveness Panel standards. Opening sections list the National Goals for Education, offer questions and answers about the volume, list projects approved since the last edition…

In response to America 2000, a federal strategy to achieve the six National Education Goals established in 1989 by the Administration and the nation's governors), communities in all 50 states are actively developing plans and programs. This directory is meant to be a way of sharing information about successful and promising work going on in…