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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1980
More than 250,000 federal employees nationwide are participating in a three-year voluntary experiment to find out if the federal government can successfully use flexible and compressed work schedules as alternatives to the traditional eight-hour day, forty-hour workweek. If the experiment is a success, the Congress may modify laws to allow…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Experimental Programs, Feasibility Studies, Federal Government
Doherty, Gillian; Lero, Donna S.; Tougas, Jocelyne; LaGrange, Annette; Goelman, Hillel – 2001
Four Canadian provinces license or contract with family child care agencies, which in turn recruit and monitor child care providers. These family child care agencies have two primary roles: monitoring and supervising providers, and supplying their affiliated family child care providers with professional development opportunities and other types of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Agency Role, Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration)
Legg, Caroline E.; Jessen Carl A.; Proffitt, Maris M. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1947
Wartime conditions created a new interest in school-and-work programs for educators because the realities of employment were brought closer to the schools, and for those concerned with the protection of young workers because of the necessity for safeguarding the interests of these young people while on the job. School-and-work programs, under…
Descriptors: Educational History, High School Students, Junior High School Students, Student Employment