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Direct linkBadescu, Mircea – European Training Foundation, 2022
This report provides the main findings and results from the 2022 collection of statistics on education, skills and employment in the ETF's partner countries. In addition, it provides the results of some ETF new strands of work: youth transition and skills mismatch. A statistical snapshot enabling the EU's candidate countries to reference…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Indicators, Cultural Differences, Dropouts
Download full textStromquist, Nelly P. – 1981
Five Youth Employment and Demonstration Program Act (YEDPA) programs are compared with the Career Intern Program (CIP) (an alternative high school program aiming to prepare dropouts, and those likely to abandon school, for employment) in terms of emphasizing issues related to program implementation. The YEDPA programs selected for comparison upon…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dropouts, Nontraditional Education, Program Administration
Peer reviewedPena, Jesus J.; And Others – Urban Review, 1979
Describes the Youth Opportunity Program at the Central Islip, New York, Psychiatric Center and evaluates its effectiveness in preventing school dropout and providing career training. (ST)
Descriptors: Career Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Employment Programs
Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. The report focuses on the young school drop-out portion only of the supported work experiment, which also included offenders, ex-addicts, and welfare recipients. The goal of supported…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Delinquency
Pooley, Richard C. – 1980
The activities of the first 6 months of a project designed to help 27 emotionally disturbed and learning disabled adolescent boys (ages 14 to 16) overcome the handicapping conditions which render them unemployable are reported. Successful aspects of the program were the career education, community based career development, and volunteer work…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Career Exploration, Dropouts
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1980
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects were designed to test whether guaranteed part-time jobs during the school year and full-time jobs in the summer would induce economically disadvantaged youths to remain in or return to school. The General Accounting Office (GAO) found that most worksites provided adequate experiences. Others, however,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Ball, Joseph; And Others – 1980
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects were set up to aid disadvantaged youths, ages 16 to 19, by guaranteeing them a part-time job during the school year and a full-time job during summer months on the condition that they remain in, or return to, a secondary school or enroll in an equivalent education program. The program was started in…
Descriptors: Definitions, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Lynch, Robert E. – 1980
Studies show that 9 out of 10 migrant students do not complete their high school education. To identify the factors contributing to this high dropout rate, 350 migrant youths were surveyed to assess what they viewed as "good" programs and why they had dropped out of school. Most respondents noted some sort of sports activity as what they liked…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention
Lesser & Ogden Associates, San Francisco, CA. – 1980
The San Francisco-based YMCA Youth Chance began in 1978 as a Youth Community Conservation and Improvement "sweat program"--a means of providing unemployed high school dropouts with CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act)-funded jobs. Youth Chance continues to train males and females, 16-19 years of age, who meet CETA…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational Opportunities
Sallade, Ronald – 1993
The New Horizons Program of the Des Moines (Iowa) public schools provides supportive services such as counseling, attendance monitoring, career-related instruction, work experience, and coordination with community agencies to dropout-prone students and their families to improve academic achievement and increase graduation rates. Work experience is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Computer Uses in Education, Counseling
Welch, Frederick G. – 1979
A study was conducted to develop baseline information about the cost effectiveness of cooperative vocational education to be used in teacher education programs in Pennsylvania. Information gathered included data on cost effectiveness, types of occupations for which students were prepared, the effect of school dropout and youth employment on local…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Capstone Experiences, Career Guidance, Cooperative Programs
