Federal Programs Supporting Educational Change, Vol. 3: The Process of Change. Appendix D: Innovations in Career Education.

This appendix deals with career education projects funded under the Vocational Education Act, 1968 Amendments, Part D. Section 1 of the appendix describes the origins and the planning and management strategies that the United States Office of Education adopted for this program. Section 2 describes the role of state education agencies. Section 3 presents syntheses of the fieldwork case studies, which describe the similarities and differences found in the planning, implementation, and adaptation of each of the projects covered. It also attempts to generalize from the limited evidence. Section 4 presents the individual case studies for these career education projects. (Author)