NCRVE Change Agent, 1992.

Overview & Synopsis

These three issues of volume 2 (1992) contain brief reports on published research of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. In issue 1 are these five articles: "High Schools with Character: Why Might They Be Important?"; "An Uncommon Education: Interaction and Innovation"; "Community College Contract Instruction: Complex Issues"; "SET [Security, Employee involvement, and Training] and JAM [Job classification, Adversarial relations, and Minimal training] Work Systems: Implications for Education"; and "A National Database on Vocational Teacher Education." Issue 2 contains five articles: "Health Care Personnel Shortages and Vocational Education"; "Using Postsecondary Transcript Data"; "Nice Places to Work: Schools with Exemplary Vocational Education Programs";"New York City's Career Magnet Schools Benefit 'Lottery' Students"; and "Beyond Articulation: Tech Prep Programs." Nine articles are found in issue 3: "A How-To Guide for Perkins Act Accountability"; "Computer-Based Instruction and Issues for Vocational Educators"; "Community Colleges and Technical Institutes: Integration of Occupational and Academic Education"; "Career Magnet High Schools: Students, Staff Talk about Successes and Problems"; "Vocational Education for Pregnant and Parenting Students: Practical Problems and Fundamental Dilemmas"; "Vocational Education at Penal Institutions: A Discouraging History"; "Linking Planning and Evaluation Statewide"; "Two Worlds: Vocational and Academic Teachers"; and "A Framework for the Subject Matter of Vocational Education." (YLB)