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Download full textUnited States R and D Corp., New York, NY. – 1971
The New York Industrial Education Centers combined the application of basic literacy, basic mathematics, and human development skills with exhaustive job development and placement efforts to secure jobs and upward mobility for persons 17-65 classified as disadvantaged. Training was conducted in 10-week cycles, with 100 trainees at each of two…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cost Effectiveness
Portland Community Coll., OR. – 1993
The B-WEST (Building Workers Entering Skilled Trades) project was an 18-month demonstration project at a campus of Portland Community College (Oregon). During the B-WEST project, the following programs/components were developed: (1) a model building construction (electrical, mechanical, construction) trades program for unemployed and underemployed…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Building Trades, Community Colleges, Demonstration Programs
Ohio State Council on Vocational Education, Westerville. – 1988
A study examined a number of local settings in Ohio in which coordination and collaboration between key providers of services under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) were deemed exemplary. Its purpose was to identify elements contributing to successful coordination and collaboration that could be of potential use to others. Researchers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
PDF pending restorationGaret, Michael S. – 1973
A study of underemployment, written as part of the development of a management information project (MISOE) for the Division of Occupational Education of the Department of Education in Massachusetts, the work represents the beginning of an effort to bring systematic, empirically based policy analysis to bear on problems of occupational education.…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Demonstration Programs, Employment Problems, Employment Projections
Speight, John F.; And Others – 1973
The report provides a detailed review of the seven and one-half year Mississippi Labor Mobility Project, STAR, Inc., whose operations and research concerned the utility and feasibility of subsidizing worker relocation assistance to the unemployed/underemployed poor for the purposes of improving their economic and social opportunities. Almost 2,500…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Employment Opportunities
Speight, John F.; And Others – 1973
The report uses the experiences of the Mississippi Labor Mobility Project, STAR, Inc. (MLMP, STAR, Inc.), and the reports from other experimental labor mobility projects to respond to the problems of clarifying relocation assistance delivery techniques and services as they relate to the goals and objectives of manpower services. The population…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Employment Opportunities
