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Download full textSnyder, Thomas D.; Dillow, Sally A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
The 2013 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 49th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The Digest has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977-78, 1983-84, and 1985-86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Dropouts, Educational Finance
BOGGS, GERALD EUGENE – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS DISSERTATION, SUBMITTED TO OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, WAS TO INVESTIGATE VOCATIONAL SUCCESS DIFFERENCES IN FOUR GROUPS OF SUBJECTS AT THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT SCHOOL DROPOUT REHABILITATION PROGRAM IN OKLAHOMA CITY IN 1965. AN EX POST FACTO DESIGN INVOLVED 162 SUBJECTS IN THREE CURRICULUMS (COMBINATION,…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Doctoral Dissertations
Schenkel, K. F.; Hudson, R. H. – 1968
This report describes a metalworker's training program conducted by the Lockheed-Georgia Company and funded by the Manpower Development Training Act (MDTA). The trainees ranged from ages 18 to 21, and were mainly comprised of school dropouts and minority group members (84 percent Negroes) with police records. Tests used to screen candidates are…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Blacks, Criminals, Disadvantaged Youth
BERTOLAET, FREDERICK – 1966
IN RESPONSE TO THE EMPLOYMENT NEEDS OF YOUTH IN PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY, THE RESEARCH COUNCIL SPONSORED A SERIES OF REGIONAL CONFERENCES TO MOBILIZE AND COORDINATE RESOURCES TO (1) BETTER PREPARE YOUTH FOR JOBS, (2) REMOVE OBSTACLES TO THEIR EMPLOYMENT, (3) COORDINATE THE ACTIVITIES OF BUSINESS, INDUSTRY, AND EDUCATION IN PREPARING YOUTH FOR WORK, (4)…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Conferences, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Frazier, William Donald – 1966
This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of two types of vocational education programs in improving students' social and vocational adjustment and success. In a comparison between dropout rehabilitation and high school vocational graduates, 92 graduates of the Oklahoma City Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) Youth Program…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs
Flicker, Bernard – 1969
The objectives of this High School Redirection Project were to redirect potential dropouts to continue full-time education and training with an educational-vocational plan, to provide high school dropouts with job skills that will enable them to enter the labor market on the highest possible level while continuing to upgrade their skills on a…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts, Group Counseling, High School Students
PEARCE, FRANK C. – 1966
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MODESTO JUNIOR COLLEGE'S MULTIOCCUPATIONAL TRAINING PROJECT AT NEW HOPE SCHOOL WAS EVALUATED ON THE BASIS OF SUBSEQUENT EMPLOYMENT OF TRAINEES. DATA ON THE CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATUSES OF TRAINEES AND DROPOUTS, REASONS FOR BEING OUT OF THE LABOR FORCE, ANTICIPATED EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT PATTERNS AND EARNING POWER OF EMPLOYED…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Vocational Education, Employment Patterns, Employment Potential
Flores, Froilan – 1968
This study dealt with the historical development of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 and the cost of administering the program in three bookkeeping classes in the Washoe County School District, Nevada. Results of a questionnaire completed by 39 class graduates (1962-65) were combined with information from the Washoe County School…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Age Differences, Bookkeeping, Doctoral Dissertations
Gurin, Gerald – 1968
Results of a study of an experimental and demonstration job training project (Chicago JOBS Project) for approximately 1,500 underemployed "functionally illiterate" inner-city Negro youth are reported. The project, which lasted from September of 1963 to the summer of 1964, included basic education, vocational training, and group and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Black Youth, Dropouts
Monson, Marvin Ralph – 1969
This study investigated effects of a Manpower Development Training Act (MDTA) program on the self-concept of 178 male adults, high school graduates and dropouts, enrolled in the Agri-Business School. The dropouts were divided into those who successfully passed General Educational Development (GED) tests and received a high school diploma (GED…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attitude Change, Bibliographies
Pucel, David J. – 1968
To predict a person's use of his Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) training, this study attempted to supplement existing methods of evaluation, using personal descriptive data about trainees and General Aptitude Test Battery Scores. The sample under study included all students enrolled in ten MDTA projects, representing a geographical…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Career Counseling, Clerical Occupations, Job Training
Shultz, George P.; Weber, Arnold R. – 1966
When Armour and Company faced a shutdown of six plants, it joined in a cooperative program of vocational retraining with two labor unions; an Automation Fund Committee was formed, with representation from management, the unions, and "public" (college professors); and an experimental program in Oklahoma City provided experience which was…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cooperative Programs, Course Content, Dropout Rate
MCKEE, JOHN M.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT AT DRAPER CORRECTIONAL CENTER AIMS TO SHOW THAT VOCATIONAL TRAINING LEADING TO EMPLOYMENT, INTENSIVE COUNSELING, BASIC EDUCATION CLASSES, AND A PROGRAM OF COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP OF RELEASEES CAN DECREASE THE RATE OF RECIDIVISM AND EFFECT ENOUGH BEHAVIOR CHANGE IN INMATES TO TURN THEM INTO USEFUL CITIZENS. TRAINING…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Appliance Repair, Auto Mechanics, Behavior Change
DAWSON, HOWARD A. – 1964
THE PERCENTAGE OF DISADVANTAGED FARM LABORERS, LOW INCOME MANUFACTURING WORKERS, AND MIGRANTS IS DISPROPORTIONATELY LARGE IN RURAL AMERICA. MILLIONS OF TECHNOLOGICALLY UNEMPLOYED RURAL YOUTH ARE UNEDUCATED, UNPREPARED, AND HENCE UNEMPLOYABLE IN A NEW OCCUPATION. ALTHOUGH UNDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE EXISTS TESTIFYING TO THE BENEFITS OF VOCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agricultural Education, Course Content, Disadvantaged
AUSTIN, JOHN J.; SOMMERFELD, DONALD A. – 1967
OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO ASSESS THE OVERALL EFFECT OF VOCATIONAL AND BASIC EDUCATION ON DISADVANTAGED YOUTH AND TO IDENTIFY THE PATTERNS OF CHANGE TAKING PLACE IN DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF DISADVANTAGED TRAINEES. AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF 189 TRAINEES IN THE MUSKEGON AREA SKILL TRAINING CENTER WAS COMPARED WITH A CONTROL GROUP OF 89…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Basic Skills
