This is the only text/handbook that focuses specifically on the everyday details involved in establishing, organizing, operating, and maintaining a reputable and viable cooperative occupational education program at a variety of levels for a variety of occupations. It presents topics in a logical sequence of an educational planning-strategy-structure system, and applies them to programs at the secondary level, adult workforce level, and post-secondary and collegiate levels, and to occupations in agriculture, business, family and consumer sciences, marketing, and trade and industry. It considers in detail the impact of current vocational legislation, legal aspects, federal funding, and accountability requirements of cooperative education, and provides complete sets of forms and evaluation procedures for each major occupation education area.