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Direct linkPrins, Esther; Clymer, Carol – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2018
Many adult education providers are developing career pathways (CP) programs, which are viewed as an important workforce development and poverty alleviation strategy in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, by state and local governments, and by private funders. Based on a three-year researcher-practitioner partnership, this paper uses…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Career Development, Academic Support Services, Federal Legislation
Download full textHarmon, Timothy; Rodriguez, Julio – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2009
The extent to which funds under the Title I of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) should be expended on training services has been a topic of discussion by Congress, which is considering reauthorization of WIA. This paper describes a policy initiative by Illinois that requires Local Workforce Investment Areas (LWIAs) under Title I of WIA to expend…
Descriptors: Job Training, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Harris, Linda; Tsoi-A-Fatt, Rhonda – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2007
This paper presents Center for Law and Social Policy's (CLASP's) recommendations on how No Child Left Behind (NCLB) could better address the workforce challenges faced by this country. CLASP is a nonprofit organization engaged in research, analysis, technical assistance, and advocacy on a range of issues affecting low-income families. The…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Change, Education Work Relationship, High Schools
O'Shea, Daniel; King, Christopher T. – 2001
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) was the first significant attempt to retool the nation's workforce development programs since the early 1980s. Titles I-V of the WIA do the following things: (1) establish the purposes, goals and operational framework of a workforce development system designed to increase participants' employment,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
