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Download full textGordon, Jesse E. – 1969
Since the passage of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 (MDTA), the Department of Labor has funded over $30 million worth of experimental and demonstration (E and D) projects in an effort to discover some new directions for dealing with the unemployment problems of disadvantaged youth. To evaluate the effectiveness of these and…
Descriptors: Counseling, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation
Spaulding, Seth – 1970
Theories relating to proposed improvements in education are discussed. Changes in curricula, contributions of fields such as psychology, and issues currently being debated are given consideration. Innovative models and approaches are proposed, and several interesting speculations are offered related to the future of education. Following the…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Television, Educational Trends, Experimental Programs
Tisdel, Linwood E. – 1976
The Piedmont Schools Project (PSP) was one of the Experimental Schools Projects awarded grants by the National Institute of Education (NIE). The PSP is located in the Piedmont region near Greer, South Carolina and serves approximately 5,000 K-12 students from eight schools. The students in this region have historically performed at one or more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Innovation, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report, required by section 233 of the Manpower Development and Training Act, opens with the chapter, "Adapting to Economic Change," which comments on major program changes during 1967, all of which relate to increasing the proportion of hard-core unemployed in the program. The chapters, "The Range of Training," and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Business Cycles, Economic Factors, Educational Innovation
Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). – 1977
An evaluation of twenty-five national pilot experimental projects in permanent education conducted in European countries was done to provide a foundation for theoretical work, to update prior studies, and to create an awareness of the problems of permanent education. Three- to five-day evaluation visits were made to each of the project sites by a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Policy, Adult Education, Adult Programs
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Washington, DC. – 1969
This pamphlet describes the Distinguished Achievement Awards of The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education which were conceived in 1965 as an annual event to encourage member colleges and universities to describe their successful programs and, in turn, to stimulate other institutions to greater action. Presented in the first half…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement
