Funds expended under Category 5 - "Communications Projects" were increased in FY 1976 over those expended in this category during FY 1975. This increase reflects primarily an interest in involving wider segments of the total community in the career education effort. By emphasizing this need, it is hoped that comprehensiveness of community effort aimed at implementing the career education concept can be encouraged without making career education yet another "add on" program in educational settings that ignore existing community resources for career education. To fully understand funding priorities reflected in the FY 1976 Office of Career Education expenditures, readers should pay special attention to the nine procurement contracts which were funded during FY 1976. Each of these procurement contracts represents a problem of high significance in the evolving career education concept. For this reason, they may be of special interest to some readers. Readers of this publication will quickly see the diversity of methods and procedures being demonstrated among these projects. Only by encouraging diversity can we meet the mandate of the Congress which calls for demonstrating the best methods and procedures. Some of these projects are high risk undertakings and may well fail to demonstrate themselves to be effective. This, of course, does not mean they will not be worthwhile. can and should learn from failure as well as from success. One Those readers wishing information over and beyond that found in these project summaries are requested to contact project directors on an individual basis. Because each project director is working hard to deliver a good product, it is hoped that further inquiries will be directed toward them only if important and crucial questions need to be asked. December 1976 Kenneth B. Hoyt, Director iv Introduction... ... TABLE OF CONTENTS iii Sacramento (California State Department of Education) Burlingame (Industry-Education Council of California) Los Angeles (California Association of Work Experience Educators) ... Niagara Falls (School District of the City of Niagara Falls) North Carolina Durham (National Testing Service) Ohio Columbus (Upper Arlington Schools) Pennsylvania Edinboro (NW Tri-County Intermediate Unit) Texas Austin (Texas Education Agency).. Dallas (K-12 Urban Career Education Project) Bedford (Bedford County Public Schools) 47 49 52 54 56 58 61 64 66 Washington Olympia (Superintendent of Public Instruction) Wisconsin Madison (Department of Public Instruction) Profiles of Projects in Category 2 Effective Methods and Techniques: Senior High School, Community College, Four-Year College and Adult and Community Settings. .... Los Angeles (Center for City Building Educational Programs).. Michigan Alma (Alma College). Adult and Community Setting Utah Salt Lake City (Olympus Research Centers) Virginia Annandale (Northern Virginia Community College) 11 11 12 Profiles of Projects in Category 3 Special Segments of the Population... Career Education for the Handicapped California Daly (Fredric Burk Foundation). New York Castleton-On-Hudson (Rensselaer/Columbia BOCES) Virginia Arlington (Arlington Career Education Center)... Career Education for the Gifted and Talented Maryland Edgewater (Smithsonian Institution) Rockville (Montgomery County Public Schools).. Oregon Eugene (Eugene Public Schools).. Rhode Island East Greenwich (State Council on the Arts) Texas College Station (Texas A&M Research Foundation) Career Education for Minority and Low Income Youth Louisville (Jefferson County Public Schools). |