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and the subjects b.egan to work full-time in the competitive labor market
during the last semester of their senior year. Post-school counseling,
training and placement services were available for all project subjects.
Twenty per cent of the subjects dropped from school. Ninety-one per cent
of those who graduated from the Program were employed on either a full-time
or part-time basis. This represents a gain of 20-30% since 60-70% of a
control population became employed without participati.ng in the work-study
Program. The Program succeeded in preparing a number of subjects with ex-
treme vocational limitations (low IQ and/or extreme behavior disorders)
for gainful employment.
Burris' six-year study (1967) of a school-work program in Mississippi
indicated that
a) It tends to hold the pupil-client in school until an older .age
than those without the opportunities of the Program.
b) It has been effective in placing pupils into full-time gainful
emp 1 oyment.
c) It has resulted in the increased direct placement or assistance.
in placement of pupil-clients into gainful employment, either
part-time or full-time, although the highest percent.age of those
who had terminated the Cooperative Program secured employment by
their own initiative.
d) Pupil-clients were placed in 16 different types of work classified
according to 85 different job titles from the Dictionary of Occu-
pational Titles, U. S. Department of Labor.
e) Cooperative Program pupil-clients were placed into employment with
much better incomes than those who had not been enrolled in it.
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