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Download full textGan, Katherine N.; Schneider, Glen; Harvill, Eleanor L.; Brooke, Nicole – Abt Associates, 2013
The dramatic evolution of computer and communications technology, coupled with an ever-increasing emphasis on cost-effectiveness, underscores the potential of technology-based learning (TBL), or elearning, in the public workforce investment system. The U.S. Department of Labor (the Department), Employment and Training Administration (ETA) launched…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, State Policy, Online Surveys
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Direct linkGolden, Thomas P.; Bruyere, Susanne M.; Karpur, Arun; Nazarov, Zafar; VanLooy, Sara; Reiter, Beth – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2012
Individuals with disabilities have lower rates of workforce participation and lower earnings than their nondisabled peers. This article traces the history of the U.S. workforce development policy framework, including the Workforce Investment Act of 1998; the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; and the impact of the Ticket to Work and Work…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Labor Force Development, Accessibility (for Disabled), Educational History
Condelli, Larry; Kirshstein, Rita; Silver-Pacuilla, Heidi; Reder, Stephen; Wrigley, Heide Spruck – American Institutes for Research, 2010
Research has identified the barriers adult learners face in attaining their education and English proficiency goals, entering and advancing in employment, succeeding in postsecondary education and training, and navigating service systems. Most adult learners face long odds in trying to meet these goals. What would it take to address these barriers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Barriers
Moore, Richard W.; Rossy, Gerard; Roberts, William; Chapman, Kenneth; Sanchez, Urte; Hanley, Chris – Online Submission, 2010
This study is a formative evaluation of the OneStop Career Center Integrated Service Delivery (ISD) Model within the California Workforce System. The study was sponsored by the California Workforce Investment Board. The study completed four in-depth case studies of California OneStops to describe how they implemented the ISD model which brings…
Descriptors: Job Applicants, Summative Evaluation, State Programs, Organizational Culture
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. – 2000
Section 121 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) requires Regional Workforce Investment Boards (RWIB) to develop a memorandum of understanding (MOUs) with the Regional Workforce Development Center (RWDC) partners to detail how resources will be coordinated across funding streams to operate and provide services for RWDC delivery systems.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Colleges, Compliance (Legal)
Dyson, Lowell – Rural Conditions and Trends, 1999
Title I of the Workforce Investment Act (1998) overhauled the Job Training Partnership Act programs, creating new methods that allow local providers to meet the education, training, and employment needs of low-income adults, dislocated workers, and youth. Separate legislation revised federal vocational and technical-education assistance.…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Silverstein, Robert – Policy Brief, 2000
This policy brief identifies and describes the provisions of the proposed regulation describing the responsibilities of a state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency to design and operate the state VR program as an integral component of the statewide workforce investment system, as envisioned by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA). The…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems
Fagnoni, Cynthia M. – 2000
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) focuses on integrating and streamlining services, requiring that most employment and training services, including those provided under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant, be provided through the One-Stop Center System. States are implementing WIA, but not all will have all steps…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems
McLendon, Lennox L.; Murphy, Garrett W.; Parker, James – National Commission on Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2006
The four papers in this series were commissioned for the first meeting of the National Commission on Adult Literacy, which met in Nashville on November 14, 2006. The first paper, "Adult Education and Literacy Legislation and Its Effects on the Field," provides the basic provisions of the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA,…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Federal Programs, Demonstration Programs, Adult Education
Nilsen, Sigurd R. – 2002
The General Accounting Office assessed the extent to which states were coordinating their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) services with their one-stop centers. Data were gathered through the following activities: (1) an autumn 2001 survey of workforce development agency officials in all 50 states and a similar survey conducted in…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Definitions
Dew, Donald W., Ed. – 1999
This report is the outcome of study group that investigated best practices for serving individuals who are deaf and low functioning. It is designed to help State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Agencies assist individuals with disabilities in securing competitive employment and is meant to be a source for innovative ideas for program development…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Deafness, Delivery Systems
Improving Job Opportunities for Low-Income People: The Hope of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
Beaulieu, Lionel J. – SRDC Information Brief: A Special Series on Welfare Reform in the South, 1999
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) makes it possible to build human capital resources by providing employment services and training to youth and adult dislocated workers. Such services are particularly needed in the rural South, where those affected by welfare reform have few job skills or educational credentials. WIA calls for the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship
Office of Inspector General (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2000
This document contains the reports on audits of the one-stop systems in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Vermont. The overall audit conclusions were as follows: (1) the states have made substantial efforts toward forming new comprehensive workforce investment systems as mandated by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA); (2)…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Delivery Systems, Educational Legislation, Employment Services
Relave, Nanette – Issue Notes, 2002
Collaboration between welfare and workforce development agencies has increased since the implementation of welfare reform. Federal legislation, state and local policy-making environments, and the capacity of potential partners to serve an agency's clients affect agency collaboration. The following broad approaches to collaboration have been…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Coordination
D'Amico, Ronald; Martinez, Alexandria; Salzman, Jeffrey; Wagner, Robin – 2001
In March 2000, thirteen grants were awarded as part of the Individual Training Account/Eligible Training Provider (ITA/ETP) Demonstration. In summer and fall of 2000, the grant recipients' activities were subjected to an interim evaluation. Site visits were made to each grantee to determine what ITA policies and practices were being formulated,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Case Studies, Coordination, Counselor Client Relationship
