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Download full textPeurach, Donald J.; Foster, Anna T.; Lyle, Angela M.; Seeber, Emily R. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2021
The aim of this essay is to advance understandings of current efforts to democratize disciplined approaches to educational innovation and improvement in the US and other countries, with a specific focus on the macro-level policy contexts of improvement research in education. In the US, earlier analyses examined these policy contexts from a…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Direct linkMcCrae, April M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Gender inequality is a persistent issue in secondary and postsecondary career and technical education programs in the United States. According to section 113(b)(2)(A)(III)(vi) of the Carl D. Perkins act, schools receiving federal funds in support of career and technical education are required to report "student participation in, and…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Program Improvement, Educational Improvement, Equal Education
Peer reviewedWirt, John G.; And Others – Economics of Education Review, 1989
Although the Perkins Act was intended to expand access to vocational education for at risk populations and improve program quality, the regulatory and implementation process has done little to translate these goals into effective programs and services. This testimony presents findings and recommendations for reforming high school and postsecondary…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits, Educational Improvement
Worthington, Robert M. – 1984
A recent study concluded that the requirements for the completion of apprenticeship training programs should be based on competence rather than the period of participation in the programs. If providers of apprenticeship training programs are to be able to follow this recommendation and to effect other changes in the structure of apprenticeship…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Apprenticeships, Cooperative Planning, Coordination
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Small Business. – 1990
This document records the oral and written testimony of several small business owners and a Nevada Department of Education official at a Congressional hearing about education and today's work force. The business owners' testimony indicated the difficulty they have finding workers who can read, write, and think, and who are willing to be trained.…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs
Muraskin, Lana D. – 1989
The National Assessment of Vocational Education (NAVE) examined how the federal law was implemented and federal funds were distributed under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. Data were reported on targeting of resources among and within states and on the uses of federal funds, and implications were drawn from the findings. The…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Ropp, Gordon; And Others – 1989
The Illinois Council on Vocational Education (ICOVE) has tried to influence educational policy in recent years. Members of the council met with the chief executive officers of the three educational boards in Illinois to discuss issues and pending policies paramount within the educational arena. ICOVE also met with members of the various education…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs
Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1988
A study of the implementation of the Perkins Act in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin was conducted by women's education and employment advocates. State officials, service providers, and program participants involved in the sex equity provisions were interviewed and reports were reviewed. Among the findings were the following: (1) in all three…
Descriptors: Community Education, Displaced Homemakers, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement
Wirt, John G.; And Others – 1989
The National Assessment of Vocational Education (NAVE) evaluated and described the vocational education services delivered to special populations under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, the effects of the act in modernizing the vocational education system, the impact of vocational education on academic skills and employment…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Kapes, Jerome T.; White, G. Ray – 1990
Case studies were conducted at the state and local level in Texas to evaluate the impact of the Carl Perkins Vocational Education Act. Changes in vocational education at the state level that could be attributed to the Carl Perkins Act (CPA) included: (1) a smaller state advisory council with a majority representing business and industry; (2) a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Basic Skills, Disabilities
Goodwin, David – 1989
The National Assessment of Vocational Education (NAVE) examined how the federal law was implemented and federal funds were distributed under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. This part of the study examined the federal role in supporting vocational education at the postsecondary level. It examines enrollments, course-taking,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities
Hayward, Becky J.; Wirt, John G. – 1989
The National Assessment of Vocational Education (NAVE) examined how the federal law was implemented and federal funds were distributed under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. This part of the study described the access of handicapped and academically disadvantaged high school students to vocational education and analyzed the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Minnesota State Council on Vocational Technical Education, St. Paul. – 1989
A Minnesota study examined how the federal law was implemented and federal funds were distributed under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984 and the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 (JTPA) and reported on the coordination between the two acts in the state for fiscal years 1986 and 1987. Information was gathered from the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Cusick, Theresa; Wolfe, Leslie R. – 1985
This paper presents an analysis of the sex equity provisions of Public Law 98-524, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. It is intended to assist parents, students, educators, and activists to ensure that the provisions of the Act are fully implemented throughout the country. The two major purposes of the new vocational education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights Legislation, Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
National Council on Vocational Education, Washington, DC. – 1989
This document contains the National Council on Vocational Education's recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the vocational-technical educational system. They follow a list of council members, explanations of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act and the purpose of the council, a quiz on vocational-technical education for the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Competence
