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Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2016
This report, the second installment in Advance CTE's "Connecting the Classroom to Careers," series, explores an issue that is often a stumbling block for K-12 work-based learning--ensuring these experiences are safe and legal for students. This report features New Jersey, Kentucky and California and their approaches to dismantling…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Workplace Learning, Barriers, Elementary Secondary Education
Wisconsin State Dept. of Industry, Labor and Human Relations, Madison. – 1995
This guide is intended as a resource for implementing cooperative education skills standards certificate programs in Wisconsin under the School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA). Section 1 is an introduction/program overview in which information is provided on the objectives of cooperative education, program design, program eligibility, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Competence, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 2000
This document is intended to serve as a resource for the implementation of Wisconsin's Cooperative Education Skill Standards Certificate Program. Following an introduction there is an overview of the program, school district eligibility requirements, local partner responsibilities, and factors that may present barriers to program implementation. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Achievement Rating, Administrator Guides
Gugerty, John – 1995
Information is provided on tech prep education programs, which are part of a restructuring movement that combines secondary and postsecondary programs to provide technical preparation in a field such as engineering technology, agriculture, health, or business. Information on the following topics is outlined: seven essential elements of tech prep;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Associate Degrees, College School Cooperation, Definitions
Haimson, Joshua; Bellotti, Jeanne – 2001
As part of the National Evaluation of School-to-Work implementation based on the School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) of 1994, a study used student surveys and site visits in eight states to determine types and numbers of student participation in work-based activities and the quality of internships that students obtain through school. The…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Development, Career Education, Education Work Relationship
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1996
This guide provides basic information for local boards of education and educators on Ohio's school-to-work system. It contains an overview of the system, a self-assessment tool that can be used in the community, a sample resolution for local boards of education, and other information to assist educators to forge local partnerships. The four…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1995
The Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and the House Committee on Education and Labor (now the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities) asked the Office of Technology Assessment to examine the potential opportunities and possible pitfalls of work-based learning that would be supported by the School to Work…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Academies, Cooperative Education, Corporate Support
WestEd, San Francisco, CA. – 2002
A study evaluated implementation of the California school-to-career initiative (STC) and its influence on student outcomes. It attempted to collect data from all local partnerships (LPs) receiving federal funding under the School-to-Work Opportunities Act. Findings with respect to implementation indicated many schools offered career development…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Career Development, Career Education, College School Cooperation
Laanan, Frankie Santos – 1995
The challenge of preparing young people for employment and facilitating the smooth transition from school to work has spurred the enactment of the federal School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA), in May 1994. The intent of STWOA is to establish a national framework in which states can create work- and school-based learning systems that include…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Awareness, Career Education, College Planning
Stern, David – 2001
After their 1969 inception as an electrical academy in a Philadelphia high school, the number of career academies grew steadily for two decades; since 1990, their growth has accelerated. Until the mid-1990s, they existed only as smaller units within high schools, but numerous high schools have since converted themselves entirely into career…
Descriptors: Career Academies, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1996
The School-to-Work Opportunities Act broadens the meaning of curriculum by calling for integrated learning organized into coherent sequences around broadly conceived career majors. Work experience, as well as academic and occupational study, is an assumed element of the integrated school-to-work curriculum. A variety of strategies for curriculum…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Practices
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Bragg, Debra D.; Hamm, Russell E. – Community College Journal, 1995
Examines findings from a two-year national study of work-based learning programs in community colleges. Indicates that community colleges, when provided with the requisite opportunity, resources, and support, can deliver valuable work-based learning experiences to students. Describes the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. (17 citations)…
Descriptors: Career Development, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Educational Objectives
Brand, Betsy; Partee, Glenda; Kaufmann, Barbara; Wills, Joan – 2000
A series of five discussions with more than 50 people involved in the national school-to-work initiative created by the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 (STWOA) resulted in the following conclusions (among others): (1) Problems with the concept include a negative attitude toward the phrase "school-to-work," the complicated nature…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Hopkins, Barbara J.; Naumann, Darl; Wendel, Frederick C. – 1999
The federal legislation that created school-to-work (STW) was to meet the educational, economic, occupational, and skill-training needs of the future work force and the needs of employers competing in a global economy. Three key concepts characterize the STW initiative: school-based learning, work-based learning, and connections between school and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Workplace Preparation and Continuing Education. – 1995
The New York State School-to-Work Opportunities System Plan, which is based on New York's original application for a federal school-to-work implementation grant and contains the 23 federally required elements, outlines the state's plans to develop and implement a statewide school-to-work opportunities system within a 9-year period. The plan…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Articulation (Education), Career Awareness, Career Education