Setting the Record Straight: A Reply to Grubb and Lazerson.

Overview & Synopsis

The director of the Office of Career Education, U. S. Office of Education, identifies and "corrects" what he considers to be conceptual errors about career education found in an article by Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson in the "Harvard Educational Review" (1975, Volume 45, Number 4, pages 451-474). Major errors are categorized under four topics: (1) Differences between career education and vocational education, (2) the concept of work in career education, (3) career education and post-secondary education, and (4) criteria for evaluation of career education. An extensive rebuttal is made to the claims of Grubb and Lazerson, and in concluding, it is stated that while career education welcomes criticism from those who disagree with the concepts espoused, some attention should be paid to basic conceptual statements. A list of references is included. (TA)