School-to-Work Resources for Systems Builders
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Alternative Center for Education Annual Report (1997)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This report addresses the goals and objectives of an alternative high school program that focuses on dropout prevention. The program includes a school-to-work component.
AVA Guide to the School-to-Work Opportunities Act (1994)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This report provides the most comprehensive overview of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act. It contains detailed information on the three components of the legislation: school-based learning, work-based learning and connecting activities. A thorough overview of both state and local responsibilities for school-to-work and the application process makes this guide valuable.
The Disproportionate Representation of Minority Students in Special Education: Theories and Recommendations (1994)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This report asserts that a disproportionate representation of minority groups in special education programs continues to be a problem. The report provides a synthesis of the current knowledge and theoretical positions concerning this issue and also highlights the problems, dilemmas, and relevant issues.
Evaluating School-to-Work Transition (1995)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
A series of eight reports on critical issues related to school-to-work transition and systemic educational reform commissioned by the National Institute for Work and Learning (NIWL) at the Academy for Educational Develoment. This series constitutes the latest thinking and developments in the field of school-to-work transition and will be useful to educators, program practitioners and policymakers. NIWL also has available the fourteen case studies and a cross case report that served as the basis for the series.
Evaluating Secondary Transition Programs (1996)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This report discusses the use of a follow-up model to evaluate secondary transition programming. The model relies on a standard set of indicators and correlated questions to assess student adjustment to adult life.
Exemplary Career Guidance Programs: What Should They Look Like? (1995)
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This report reviews the role of the school counselor and counseling programs by analyzing data collected during a 1994 pilot test that was developed to identify exemplary career guidance and counseling programs. It also presents material relevant to developing and implementing a career development program based on model program sites.
The Faces of Change (1997)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This report highlights significant accomplishments and changes that have occurred through Minnesota's Transition Systems Change Project. There are reports on the statistics, as well as valuable reflections on the systematic change due to this project.
Framework for the Future: Creating a School-to-Work System for Learning, Livelihood, and Life (1995)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This report details two major recommendations made to state boards of education for implementing school-to-work.
Involvement of Students with Disabilities in the New American Schools Development Corporation Projects (1994)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This report examines the involvement of students with disabilities in the New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) reform project. It reviews the competition in the selection of the demonstration projects that would create teams to design, implement, and disseminate "break-the-mold" schools to bring about educational reform.
Issues and Recommendations Regarding Implementation of High School Graduation Tests (1993)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This report merits the attention of policymakers involved in decisions concerning graduation testing or any other assessment approach intended to eliminate the reliance on the Carnegie unit (the number of hours the student has attended class), to measure success in high school.
Job Performance Learning (1993)
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This report explores the job performance approach and the tools needed to develop a learning system for all employees in the workplace. The system is designed to ensure that all employees have an understanding of the corporate culture, the ability to perform basic skills for a given job, and the ability to work effectively with other employees.
National and State Perspectives on Performance Assessment and Students with Disabilities (1994)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This report examines national and state standards for assessment based on national data-collection efforts and how this affects students receiving special education. Information is also provided on the use of performance assessment in statewide assessment programs and the implications it has for students with disabilities.
PEPNet '96 Promising and Effective Practices Network Presentation of 18 Effective Initiatives: Lessons Learned
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Structures and Policies
This report provides a presentation of 18 effective initiatives recognized in 1996 by PEPNet. PEPNet is a nationwide network of youth employment/development initiatives that demonstrate high standards of effectiveness in the areas of quality management, youth development, workforce development, and evidence of success.
Profiles and Best Practices: Exemplary Vocational Special Populations Program (1995)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
The report reviews research that explores the area of exemplary vocational programs by looking at profiles of model programs and their characteristics. Some of the programs include Project GRADS (Guidance in Retaining Adolescent Dropouts), CHOICE (Community Helping Our Youth in Career Education), and PAVE (Promoting Access to Vocational Education).
School-to-Work Transition (1995)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This paper was commissioned by the California State Assembly. It analyzes the implications of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act for the pre-service training of teachers and other professional educators.
Transition from School to Work: States Are Developing New Strategies to Prepare Students for Jobs (1993)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Structures and Policies
The researchers for the study reviewed literature and consulted experts in the field to determine key components of a comprehensive school-to-work transition strategy. The study also included a telephone survey to all 50 states to determine how many states adopt the components of comprehensive strategies.