Student employment subsidies are one of the largest types of federal employment subsidies, and one of the oldest forms of student aid. Yet it is unclear whether they help or harm students' long term outcomes. This document contains the appendices to the report "Should Student Employment Be Subsidized? Conditional Counterfactuals and the…

Condensed from "New York State Education. LVII (October 1969), p36-39. (AP)

This document describes work-based learning, a process that connects school and work and makes it possible for students to get a head start on a career by combining classroom study and practical experiences in a "job-like" setting or with an actual employer. It contains a personal guide to some of the work-based learning programs that are…

The time has come to start to improve students' job experiences and to improve the relationship between the work and school experiences. In rural and agricultural economies, student work was so important to the family that the school year was fashioned to accommodate it. As the nation became more urban, student employment for pay and student…

The Texas Part-Time Work Experience (PT-WEX) Program gives migrant high school students an opportunity to (1) explore their work and personal values and interests; (2) apply and learn skills in a job after school; (3) develop new career choices; and (4) obtain job experience. This manual provides participants of the PT-WEX program with some…

Describes a study in which a survey was completed by high school seniors to assess the impact of working on their academic achievement. The results suggest that some students find it difficult to balance work and school. Implications for school counselors are also given. (CH)

Since 1986, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has collected information from 11th-grade students about their employment activities. Out of the 29,000 students asked about work in the 1986 assessment, 54% reported working some amount of time each week, and over 28% reported working more than 15 hours per week. Thus, of 2.9…

This Final Report summarizes five years of development of cooperative summer and school-year programs between the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) and community colleges. NYC Goes to Community College is a combined work and study program for economically disadvantaged youth, cooperatively conducted by local sponsors of Neighborhood Youth Corps and…

The Part-Time Work Experience Program (PT-WEX) provides migrant students the opportunity to work after school. The PT-WEX program is part of the Midwest Youth Employment and Training Program (YETP) which emphasizes high school retention and completion and career awareness. Intended for supervisors of the program participants, this manual provides…

The Focus program deals with those students who perform well below their capacity socially and/or academically. It has as its main goal to decrease the incidence of alienation among these youth, the staff, and the community. Sub-goals include the reduction of alienation and improvement of self-concept, an increased access to desirable social…

TWO APPROACHES WERE USED IN STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (NYC) ON MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN -- (1) IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL OPERATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN ITS WORK FLOW, AND (2) IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIFIC PROBLEMS IN THE YOUTH AND POVERTY AREAS (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND ACHIEVEMENT, JUVENILE DELINQUENCY,…

Wartime conditions created a new interest in school-and-work programs for educators because the realities of employment were brought closer to the schools, and for those concerned with the protection of young workers because of the necessity for safeguarding the interests of these young people while on the job. School-and-work programs, under…

It is believed that superintendents and principals, school board members, teachers, and employers and other lay citizens--in fact, all those persons who help to decide on public-school curriculum have need for a bulletin in which information is made available concerning work experience education programs. They should be informed about selected…