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Direct linkHeinrich, Carolyn J.; Holzer, Harry J. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2010
Low high school graduation rates and sharply declining employment rates among disadvantaged youth have led to increasing numbers of youth who are disconnected from both school and work. What programs and policies might prevent these disconnections and improve educational and employment outcomes, particularly among young men? We review the evidence…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attainment
Download full textJones, Paul E.; Wall, Robert E. – 1987
A study compared private and public training programs in the Baltimore (Maryland) metropolitan area. Survey instruments were sent to 105 individuals who had been identified as either directing or coordinating a job training program in the Baltimore area. Seventy-six usable survey instruments were returned (a 72 percent response rate). There was…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Employment Programs, Instructional Materials
Gibson, G. Ruth – 1983
This study was designed to investigate the effect of participation in the first-year Coordinated Vocational Academic Education Program (CVAE) and the effect of participation in work experience on the knowledge of basic employment skills and work attitudes of disadvantaged youth in selected Georgia high schools. The study compared the scores on the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Jonas, Edward Delano, Jr.; Hayes, LaMarian G. – 1982
Researchers used a pretest-posttest comparison to evaluate the effectiveness of monetary rewards in Project ALIVE (Atlantans Learning in a Vocational Environment), a nine-week summer program that combined education, employment, and career training for economically disadvantaged youth in grades 8-12. The project was jointly offered by the Atlanta…
Descriptors: Career Education, Control Groups, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Butler, Erik Payne – 1988
During the years since 1982 when the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) was passed, program and management practices have evolved in ways quite different from JTPA's much-criticized predecessor, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The most significant evolution has been the strongly results-driven nature of the program…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competence, Competency Based Education, Educational Improvement
Nightingale, Demetra Smith – 1986
This paper describes the client assessment package being used in the Philadelphia Urban Saturation Work Program and discusses some of the issues that should be considered in designing and implementing employability assessment components of welfare-employment programs. The original objectives of the assessment component were the following: (1) to…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Employment Counselors, Employment Interviews, Employment Programs
Myers, Douglas D.; And Others – 1980
An assessment was made of the degree to which a consistent, integrated, and coordinated effort is being made to provide vocational education services in Iowa. To assess the extent of cooperative relationships between selected human service agencies, five field visits were made to meet with representatives of local agencies and service centers…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning, Educational Legislation
Peer reviewedJohnson, Terry R.; Geller, Daniel M. – Evaluation Review, 1992
The results of a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) project at 10 Job Corps centers nationwide with 5,379 trainees indicate that effects of CAI after about 60 hours of classroom instruction are small and achievement gains are not significantly different from those of students taught conventionally. CAI may help motivate students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Guagenti-Tax, Elena; Mulvihill, Lee – 1992
This paper describes an evaluation of a prevocational Work Experience Project called New Leaf, which offers unemployed homeless men and women the opportunity to acquire essential work-related social and employment skills in connection with vocational and educational services and drug-free treatment in a therapeutic community. The evaluation covers…
Descriptors: Drug Rehabilitation, Employment Experience, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Austin, M. Carter – 1981
The Three-Tier Vocational Education Program serves economically disadvantaged and handicapped high school students in Duplin County, North Carolina. It is designed to assist these students in developing job-seeking, job-getting, and job-keeping skills in a partnership with high schools, James Sprunt Technical College, and the employing community.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Blacks, Community Colleges, Disabilities
Kitabchi, Gloria; Petry, John R. – 1982
An evaluation of the Nuclear Skill Related Training Program at Memphis State University was conducted to identify possible motivational and attitudinal variables that may contribute to the retention-attrition rates of Job Corps students (40 percent) admitted to the program compared to non-Job Corps students who are migrant workers (2 percent). The…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Campbell-Thrane, Lucille – 1979
An overview of cooperation between CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) and vocational education is presented in this speech, including a look at data on legislation, history, and funding sources. In light of CETA legislation's specificity on how local sponsors are to work with vocational educators, the speech gives excerpts and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperation
