Profiles of Career Education Projects. Fourth Year's Program, Fiscal Year 1978 Funding.

Overview & Synopsis

This report provides short summaries of career education projects funded under the provisions of Section 406 of Public Law 93-380 during fiscal year 1978. Each project summary follows a similar format, which includes identifying information (title, grantee, project director), major objectives, project activities, evaluation, communications, and demographic information. The eighty-seven projects summarized are grouped into five categories: (1) incremental quality improvements in K-12 career education programs (twelve projects); (2) effective career education methods and techniques in senior high schools, community colleges, adult and community education agencies, and higher education (ten projects); (3) effective career education methods and techniques for special segments of the population (handicapped, gifted and talented, minority, and low income youth) and for the reduction of sex stereotyping in career choices (thirty projects); (4) effective methods and techniques for training and retraining persons conducting career education programs (twenty projects); and (5) communication of career education philosophy, methods, program activities, and evaluation results (fifteen projects). Profiles for fiscal year 1977 are detailed in ED 158 005, and for 1976 in CE 020 140. (CT)