General Information on School-to-Work

America and the New Economy

America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages!

Beyond the School Doors: The Literacy Needs of Job Seekers Served by the U.S. Department of Labor

Building a Quality Workforce: An Agenda for Postsecondary Education

Combining School and Work: Options in High Schools and Two-Year Colleges

Cooperative Education as a Strategy for School To Work Transition (CenterFocus No. 3)

From School to Work (Policy Information Reports)

Hands and Minds: Redefining Success in Vocational Technical Education

Here Is What We Must Do at School to Get Our Students Ready for Work: Blueprint for a School-to-Work System

Improving the Transition from School to Work in the United States

Learning a Living: A Blueprint for High Performance, A SCANS Report for America 2000

Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage

A National Policy for Workplace Training: Lessons from State and Local Experiments

Research on School-to-Work Transition Programs in the United States

School-to-Work Connections: Formulas for Success

School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 (PL 103-239)

The School-to-Work Opportunities Act: Overview

School-to-Work Opportunities Act: Policy Briefs

School-to-Work Opportunities Packet

School-to-Work Toolkit: Building a Local Program--Design Elements and Best

Practices from Pioneering School-to-Work Programs Across America

The School-to-Work Transition and Youth Apprenticeship: Lessons from the U.S. Experience

State Initiatives for School and the Workplace

States and Communities on the Move: Policy Initiatives to Create a World-Class Workforce

Teaching and Learning Generic Skills for the Workplace

Transition from School to Work: Linking Education and Worksite Training

What Work Requires of Schools: A SCANS Report for America 2000

Worker Training: Competing in the New International Economy


School-Based Learning Components

The 1990 Perkins: Evaluating and Improving Program Effectiveness

Accountability for Vocational Education: A Practitioner's Guide

Accountability: Implications for State and Local Policymakers

Alternative Approaches to Outcomes Assessment for Postsecondary Vocational Education

Annotated Resource List: Assessing Special Populations in Vocational Programs

Annotated Resource List: Integration of Academic and Vocational Education

Annotated Resource List: Tech Prep

Assessing Jobs Participants

Assessing Special Students: Strategies and Procedures (3rd Ed.)

Assessment and Placement of Minority Students

The AVA Guide to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990: Updated Edition

Beyond Vocational Education Standards and Measures: Strengthening Local Accountability Systems for Program Improvement

Career Choices: A Guide for Teens and Young Adults

Career Development and Planning for Single Parents and Displaced Homemakers, Based on the National Career Development Competencies

Career Education: A Curriculum Manual for Students With Handicaps

Career Magnets: Interviews with Students and Staff

Career Options Planner for Sophomores: Windows to Your Future

Career Planning and Employment Strategies for Postsecondary Students with Disabilities

Career Portfolio

Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990: Selected Resources for Implementation

The Clinical Practice of Career Assessment: Interests, Abilities, and Personality

Counselor Role and Educational Change: Planning, Integration, and Basic Skills

A Counselor's Guide to Career Assessment Instruments

Creating More Responsive Student Evaluation Systems for Disadvantaged Students (Report No. 15)

Designing a Plan To Measure Vocational Education Results

Developing a Career Center: A Handbook for Counselors

Educational Outcomes and Indicators for Individuals at the Post-School Level

Educational Outcomes and Indicators for Students Completing School

Effectiveness of New York City's Career Magnet Schools: An Evaluation of Ninth Grade Performance Using an Experimental Design

Examples of Integrated Academic and Vocational Curriculum from High School Academies in the Oakland Unified School District

Finding One's Way: Career Guidance for Disadvantaged Youth

A Framework for Evaluating Local Vocational Education Programs

Guide to Designing Standards and Measures for Evaluating the Performance of Vocational Education Programs

Guidelines for Developing Systems of Performance Standards and Accountability for Vocational Education: Notes from a Conference Presentation

Illinois Tech Prep Planning Strategies

Implementing Arizona's Vocational Technological Education Performance Standards

Industry Skill Standards: Impact on Students and Workers

Integrating Academic Skills in Vocational Programs. The Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 13(1)

Integrating Science and Math in Vocational Education (ERIC Digest No. 134)

Interest Assessment for Girls and Young Women

Knowledge Brief: Using Portfolios to Assess Student Performance (Number 9)

Linking Planning and Evaluation in Vocational Education: Issues and Concepts

Linking Planning and Evaluation: Review and Synthesis of Literature

Linking Planning and Evaluation: Understanding the Process in Vocational and Technical Education

Local Accountability in Vocational Education: A Theoretical Model and Its Limitations in Practice

Making High Schools Work: Through Integration of Academic and Vocational Education

Managing Local Plans: A Guide to Accountability for the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990 (PL 101-392)

A Model Program for Serving LEP Students

National Career Development Guidelines

Pandora's Box: Accountability and Performance Standards in Vocational Education

Performance-Based Policy Options for Postsecondary Vocational Education and Employment Training Programs

Performance Measures and Standards for Vocational Education: 1991 Survey Results

Performance Standards for Vocational Education: National, State, and Local Implications (National Satellite Teleconference)

The Portfolio and Its Use: Developmentally Appropriate Assessment of Young Children

Portfolio Assessment in Adult, Career, and Vocational Education (ERIC Trends and Issues Alerts)

Program and Policy Issues in Implementing Tech Prep in Illinois

Promoting Success with At-Risk Students: Emerging Perspectives and Practical Approaches

Providing Student Vocational Assessment Services: An Administrator's Guide

Quick Guide to Your State's System of Standards and Measures

Recommendations for Improving the Assessment and Monitoring of Students with Limited English Proficiency

Strategies for Linking Planning and Evaluation in Vocational and Technical Education

Teaching the Possibilities: Jobs and Job Training Resource Guide for Transition Planning

Tech Prep and Counseling: A Resource Guide

Tech Prep: Effective and Promising Practices Guide

Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities

Testing and Assessment in Adult Basic Education and English as a Second Language Programs

Testing and Assessment in Secondary Education: A Critical Review of Emerging Practices

A Time to Every Purpose: Integrating Occupational and Academic Education in Community Colleges and Technical Institutes

Transdisciplinary Vocational Assessment: Issues in School-Based Programs

The Transition Skills Guide: An Integrated Curriculum with Reading and Mathematic Activities

The Vermont Portfolio Assessment Program: Interim Report on Implementation and Impact, 1991-92 School Year (CSE Technical Report 350)

Vocational Assessment: A Guide for Parents and Professionals (NICHCY Transition Summary No. 6)

What Works When Teachers Integrate Vocational and Academic Education


Work-Based Learning Component

Apprenticeship and the Future of the Work Force (ERIC Digest No. 124)

Apprenticeship for Adulthood: Preparing Youth for the Future

Apprenticeship Training: Administration, Use, and Equal Opportunity

Education and Training for Work in the Fifty States: A Compendium of State Policies

Making Apprenticeships Work

A Special Issue on the American Workforce: 1992-2005. Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 37(3)

Training in America: The Organization and Strategic Role of Training

Training the Technical Work Force

Working Skills for a New Age


Connecting Activities Component

Annotated Resource List: School-Business Partnerships

Big Brothers/Big Sisters: A Study of Program Practices

Business and Education Partnerships

Business and the Schools: A Guide to Effective Programs

Business/School Partnerships: A Path to Effective School Restructuring

Career Links: An Employment-Related Mentorship Program for Economically

Disadvantaged Teen Girls

Developing Business-Education Partnerships for the 21st Century: A Practical Guide for School Improvement

Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention: A Dozen Strategies for Dropout Prevention

Home-Grown Lessons: Innovative Programs Linking Work and High School

Investing in Our Future: The Imperatives of Education Reform and the Role of Business

The Mentor Handbook

Mentoring Programs for At-Risk Youth, (Dropout Prevention Research Report)

School-Community-Business Partnerships: Building Foundations for Dropout Prevention

The School-to-Work Connection

Streamlining Interagency Collaboration for Youth at Risk: Issues for Educators

Training Partnerships: Linking Employers and Providers

Understanding How Youth and Elders Form Relationships: A Study of Four Linking Lifetimes Programs

Youth Mentoring: Programs and Practices (Urban Diversity Series No. 97)


Transition Issues for Special Populations

Begin the Between: Planning for the Transition from High School to Adult Life

From School to Work: A Transitional Handbook

Life Beyond the Classroom: Transition Strategies for Young People with Disabilities

Proceedings of the National Conference: Future Frontiers in the Employment of Minority Persons with Disabilities

Quality of Life for Persons with Disabilities: Skill Development and

Transitions Across Life Stages

School to Community Transition for Youth with Disabilities

Selected Resources To Facilitate the Transition of Learners with Special Needs from School to Work or Postsecondary Education, Volume 2

Serving Vocational ESL Students

Transition for Disadvantaged Students

Transition Partnership: Putting It Together

Transition Resource Guide

What Happens Next? Trends in Postschool Outcomes of Youth with Disabilities: The Second Comprehensive Report from the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students


Gender Equity Issues

Directory of Nontraditional Training and Employment Programs Serving Women

Ensuring Quality School-to-Work Opportunities for Young Women

Returning to the Job Market: A Woman's Guide to Employment Planning

Working Women: A Chartbook

School-Based Learning

Agency for Instructional Technology

Career Beginnings Program

Center for Applied Academics

Center on Education and Work

Council for Basic Education

Educational Equity Concepts, Inc.

Girls Incorporated

Girls Incorporated National Resource Center

Hands and Minds Collaborative

Institute on Education and Training

National Assessment of Educational Progress

National Association of Partners in Education

National Center for Research in Vocational Education

National Center on Education and the Economy

National Center on Educational Outcomes

National Coalition for Sex Equity in Education

National Diffusion Network

National Institute for Work and Learning

National Tech Prep Clearinghouse of Resources

Office of Special Populations

School Based Youth Services Program

School-to-Work Opportunities Information Center

U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education

Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States

Work Keys


Work-Based Learning

Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training

Center for Workforce Preparation and Quality Education

The Institute on Education and the Economy

Institute on Education and Training

National Institute for Work and Learning

National Training Programs Service

Office of Special Populations

REAL Enterprises

School-to-Work Opportunities Information Center

U.S. Department of Labor, Federal Committee on Apprenticeship

Women Work! The National Network for Women's Employment


Connecting Activities

Agency for Instructional Technology

American Counseling Association

Business-Higher Education Forum

Career Beginnings Program

Career Planning and Adult Development Network

Center for Corporate Community Relations

Center for Law and Education, Inc.

Center for Occupational Research and Development

Center for Workforce Preparation and Quality Education

Center on Education and Work

Council for Aid to Education

Division on Career Development and Transition

ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education

ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services

Institute for Women's Policy Research

The Institute on Education and the Economy

IWPR Information Network

National Alliance of Business

National Association for Industry-Education Cooperation

National Association of Partners in Education

National Career Development Association

National Diffusion Network

National Dropout Prevention Center

National Occupational information Coordinating Committee

National Youth Employment Coalition

Norwalk Mentor Program

Office of Special Populations

School-Business Alliances and the ADA

School-to-Work Opportunities Information Center

U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau

Wider Opportunities for Women

Women Work! The National Network for Women's Employment