National Advisory Council for Career Education. 1976 Interim Report.

Overview & Synopsis

The information reported here provides a concise coverage of the National Advisory Council for Career Education activities and national recommendations regarding career education. Section 1 briefly describes the current status of career education. Section 2 presents 11 legislative and other recommendations of the advisory council including (1) that Federal legislation be enacted that advances career education for elementary and secondary school students from its current planning and demonstration stage to an implementation level; (2) that educators maintain and intensify their efforts to clarify the relationships between career and vocational education; (3) that the Office of Education, State educational agencies, and local schools intensify their efforts to make career education a collaborative undertaking involving education and the broader community; and (4) that the Office of Education initiate planning to conduct a second national conference for career education. Section 3 summarizes council activities and actions of the past year and includes summaries of three subcommittee reports; purpose, titles, and chief investigators of 11 papers commissioned by the council; a list of 13 concerns identified from testimony presented at a public hearing on career education conducted by the council; and abstracts of four papers presented by council members suggesting future directions for career education (EM)