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Download full textBlume, Grant; Meza, Elizabeth; Bragg, Debra; Love, Ivy – New America, 2019
The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant represented an unprecedented investment by the federal government in integrated postsecondary education and workforce training offered primarily by community and technical colleges. Between 2011 and 2018, 256 grants totaling nearly $2 billion were awarded through…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career Education, Federal Aid, Grants
Center for Law and Social Policy CLASP, 2005
The Higher Education Act (HEA) can be a key part of the solution to the coming "skills gap" resulting from the lack of skilled workers with postsecondary education entering the workforce. HEA should be modernized to support economic development, meet the needs of businesses and workers, and assist the growing number of "nontraditional"…
Descriptors: Skilled Workers, Federal Aid, Educational Policy, Economic Development
Social and Labour Bulletin, 1982
This article cites six sources which present planning and implementation strategies for major government-sponsored training programs. These federal programs were designed to allocate funds to modernize training facilities and to provide employment skills for the hard-to-employ youth in six European and Asian nations. (SSH)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Employment Problems, Federal Aid
Finegold, David – 1993
The perception that the United States is falling behind in the skills race has prompted experts to look abroad for policy ideas. Of particular interest has been the German "dual system," which alternates 2 to 3 years of highly structured work-based training with classroom teaching for young people, beginning at age 16. Buoyed by the success of the…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Goodman, Robert – 1980
Tailored-for-industry programs like South Carolina's Special Schools and Minnesota's New Jobs raise questions concerning the effectiveness of such programs in creating jobs and their influence on future local and national education policy. Almost every state has a subsidized for-industry program which trains workers for new or expanding industries…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Education Work Relationship
Comings, John; Reder, Stephen; Sum, Andrew – 2001
In the new economy, Americans need a strong foundation of basic skills and education to succeed in their adult roles as workers, family members, and citizens. Analysts estimate over 20 percent of Americans lack the foundation of basic skills and education they need. One way to understand how basic skills lead to success in the 21st century is to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Citizen Role
