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Career education, as it currently exists, is put in perspective with reference to broader and more far-reaching proposals for dealing with the education/work dilemma in the United States. In so doing, career education is pictured as a movement that operates under a "possible change " philosophy. Current strengths of career education are represented along with a general set of action steps that could be undertaken in any community interested in initiating a career education effort. Observations are noted regarding the current readiness to move, on a nationwide scale, from a demonstration to a programmatic implementation mode in career education. It is, concluded that to attempt such a nationwide implementation, more financial suppart than currently seems available is needed. (TA) Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort