Combining School and Work: Options in High Schools and Two-Year Colleges.
Combining School and Work: Options in High Schools and Two-Year Colleges.
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学校和工作相结合:高中和两年制大学的选择。
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1991
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D. Stem
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D. Stem
This report examines a variety of options that are being implemented in schools and in school-business partnerships to train workers for the increasingly technical and changing jobs of the future. The report contains eight sections that cover the following topics: (1) joining supply-side and demand-side policy at the local level (educational planning to provide workers for jobs and jobs for workers); (2) apprenticeship (the German system, the U.S. system, and posszbilities for expanding apprenticeship); (3) cooperative educaton--CO-OP (federal support, prevalence of CO-OP, effects on employment, and expanding; CO-OP); (4) school-based enterprise--SBE (studies of SBEs in the United States, an exemplary program of SBE, and possibilities for expanding SBE); (5) vocational academies (historical perspective, evaluations, and possibilities for expansion); (6) tech-prep and 2 + 2 programs linking high schools with two-year colleges (examples of tech-prep programs and ways of expanding them); (7) school-business partnerships and ways of expanding them; and (8) improving the options for students. (Contains 94 references.) (KC) ********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. *********************************************************************** COMBINING SCHOOL AND WORK: OPTIONS IN HIGH SCHOOLS AND TWO-YEAR COLLEGES U.S. Dey artment of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education March 1991 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Dear Colleague: OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION March 1, 1991 THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY This report is an outgrowth of the national conference, "The Quality Connection: Linking Education and Work," that was sponsored by the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Labor in Washington, DC, May 15-17, 1.990. The conference brought together business, education, government, and labor leaders to discuss the role of vocational-technical education in the transition from school to work. Vocational-technical education has much to offer all students in their preparation for work. What needs to be known is how it does so. This report brings to the fore some of the traditional approaches to school-to-work transition, such as cooperative education, as well as some of the latest innovations, such as tech-prep, which exist in vocational-technical education. I hope that this report will foster closer integration between academic and occupational education at all levels as well as strengthen the employer connection. The importance of cooperation and coordination among the different players in school-to-work transitions should be recognized and acted upon. Quality vocational-technical education can help to make the transition from school to work for students efficient, effective, and meaningful. This report identifies possible pathways leading to the competent and highly skilled work force the Nation needs to be internationally competitive.