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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
This is a report of a hearing on December 10, 1981, before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, regarding reauthorization of the Vocational Education Act of 1963. It focuses on the vocational education data system known as VEDS. Testimony includes…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Hearings, Information Systems
National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Washington, DC. – 1982
During the year 1981, the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education (NACVE), composed of 37 members, conducted 4 full-membership meetings, in addition to meetings of committees of the Council. As a result of these meetings, the Council issued seven papers on the following topics: vocational education in correctional institutions; policy…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Correctional Education, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Abramson, Theodore – 1979
Vocational education is a major component of our educational systems at the secondary and postsecondary school level. The passage of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 broadened the definition of vocational education from training people for specific occupations to developing human potential and long-term employability. However, due to the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
Problems facing vocational education and child nutrition programs if proposed funding cuts take effect were detailed by vocational educators and nutrition specialists at a regional hearing of the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education in Ashland, Kentucky, March 13, and Lexington,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Breakfast Programs, Children, Early Childhood Education
Dunham, Daniel B. – 1980
Within the context of the reauthorization of the Vocational Education Act of 1963, as amended, the predominant issues for vocational education in the eighties will be refined into policies. Central issues related to reauthorization and to the larger picture of the future of vocational education can be generally grouped into four broad categories:…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
This document is a transcript of a United States House of Representatives hearing conducted in October, 1981, regarding reauthorization of the Vocational Education Act of 1963--specifically the National Institute of Education's study of vocational education mandated by the Education Amendments of 1976. Six principal findings were reported in the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1981
This document reports on findings of the studies on vocational education that the Education Amendments of 1976 directed the National Institute of Education to conduct. The introduction overviews these studies of vocational education programs conducted under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (VEA) and other related programs conducted under the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Consumer Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
This first part of the congressional hearings held in Washington, D.C., in February 1981, to reauthorize the Vocational Education Act of 1963 contains 16 pieces of testimony about vocational education programs in different institutional settings. Individuals giving testimony include representatives of the following institutions: Des Moines…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1983
This document contains the testimony and supporting printed evidence presented at an oversight hearing on the reauthorization of the Vocational Education Act. These hearings focused on various aspects of vocational education, including vocational education research, cooperative or worksite education, and vocational education in correctional…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Correctional Education, Educational Benefits, Educational Legislation
