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Roveland, Richard M. – 1980
This guide provides a handy reference to major sources of information dealing with career planning, educational opportunities, occupational supply and demand, job characteristics, and the job search. Prepared for the New York State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, this directory contains, whenever possible, sources relating to New…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Planning, Educational Opportunities, Employment Opportunities
California Federation of Teachers, Oakland. – 2002
This labor education resource guide provides teachers with information about the history and current role of the labor movement in the United States. The guide is divided into 15 sections: (1) "Curricula, Lesson Plans, and Guides"; (2) "Exemplary Labor in the Schools Programs"; (3) "Teacher Training Programs"; (4)…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Labor Education, Program Guides
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Cole, Paul – Social Education, 1982
Discusses two approaches for teaching labor studies at the elementary secondary levels: elective courses and the infusion of labor topics into existing curricula. Sources of classroom materials are listed. (AM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elective Courses, Elementary Secondary Education, Fused Curriculum
Brewster, Cori; Railsback, Jennifer – 2001
Twenty to 30 percent of new teachers leave their field within the first 3 years; 9.3 percent don't even make it through their first full year; and after 5 years, roughly 50 percent of beginners have left teaching. Reasons for leaving include pursuit of a more personally appropriate career, low pay, the desire to raise one's own children, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Burnout, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Mitchell, Stephen – 1996
This guide, which was developed from a list of labor-management best practice guidelines that was constructed by nationally recognized work labor-management relations professionals, businesspersons, and union representatives, is designed to help employers determine whether a consultant has the substantive, process, and interpersonal skills…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Competition, Consultants
National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (DOL/ETA), Washington, DC. – 1986
This self-study curriculum guide is intended to assist counselors and teachers in learning to use labor market and career information with clients more effectively. The following topics are covered: understanding career development and the use of career and labor market information in career counseling (changing ideas about career development, the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Information Dissemination
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, Raleigh, NC. – 1991
This directory contains a comprehensive listing of the employment, training, and support services provided by organizations receiving funds under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), Title IV 402. It is intended to help migrant and farm-workers relocate their jobs and access educational or social services. The directory lists, by state, the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Day Care, Economic Development, Employment Opportunities
King, Jereann; Bingman, Beth – National Institute for Literacy, 2004
This handbook is designed to help community-based organizations that provide adult education improve their program quality in order to better achieve results that matter. The target audience for this handbook includes administrators and other members of program improvement teams in community-based organizations that want to use Equipped for the…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Administrators, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Garfin, Molly, Comp. – 1979
Statistical data and a descriptive summary of the data on faculty contracts and bargaining agents are presented. The following information is provided for colleges listed by state: number of campuses, type of college, size of bargaining unit for 1977-78, the current bargaining agent, the year the current agent was elected, the year the initial…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Druian, Greg – 1980
This last in a series of three papers on models for communicating and disseminating career education programs highlights models used in four sectors, i.e., business, labor, industry, and government. Focus is on four levels of dissemination: spread, exchange, choice, and implementation. First, the differences in the networks represented by each of…
Descriptors: Business, Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Government (Administrative Body)
Ott, Joyce A. – 2001
This document introduces community leaders and practitioners to innovative approaches to improving workforce literacy by building accessible lifelong learning systems to prepare adults with the array of skills needed to prosper in the new economy. The introduction defines literacy and workforce literacy and outlines the challenges that education,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Herman, Alexis M. – 1979
There is a great need to examine factors limiting educational opportunities of women, especially minority and low income women. Thus, it is important to identify funding sources for research and development programs which enhance women's educational equity. Possible funding sources include the Department of Labor and other federal programs. In the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Federal Aid
Joseph, Ken; Nelson, Victoria; Hayes, Stacey – 1997
This document is intended to assist health care organizations in designing and implementing a school-to-career (STC) initiative within their organization. Section 1 presents an overview of STC that discusses the following topics: skills needed by the health care industry's future workforce; the definition of STC; special needs of the health care…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Allied Health Occupations Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Education
Warmbrod, Catharine P.; And Others – 1980
This handbook is designed to help staff development persons, departments, and agencies use various educational approaches to involve business, industry, and labor in the professional development of vocational educators. The content is in ten chapters, and each one includes one or all of the following: rationale, benefits; content (includes…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Educational Resources
Thomas-Gordon, Sandy L.; Spetz, Sally H. – 1980
This curriculum resource guide, one of seven developed by the State of Illinois to present information on new and emerging curricula existing in the nation, can be used as a basis for local educators to determine the resources needed to offer solar technology curricula and to initiate curriculum development at the local level. Chapters 1 and 2…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Annotated Bibliographies, Associate Degrees, Curriculum
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