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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
Vetter, Louise; Drier, Harry, Ed. – 1993
This guidebook outlines specific methods of measuring the effects of staff efforts to reduce sex equity bias and stereotyping in vocational education programs as stipulated by the 1990 Perkins Act. Following an introduction, chapter 2 covers the requirements of the 1990 Perkins Act regarding sex equity programs and vocational education programs…
Descriptors: Displaced Homemakers, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Evaluation Criteria
Denny, James; And Others – 1989
A study was conducted in Illinois to determine how effectively the vocational education system was meeting its responsibilities to train, retrain, and upgrade employed and unemployed workers in new skills for which there is a demand in the state, under the terms of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. Responses were received from…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Compliance (Legal), Dislocated Workers
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1997
For program year 1996-97, 222,639 North Carolina (NC) 9th-12th graders were enrolled in Workforce Development Education (WDE). Twenty-five curriculum products were developed, 34 course blueprints were revised to reflect business/industry practices and state/national standards, and about 3,600 business/industry personnel participated in WDE…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Correctional Education, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1979
Covering 1978, the first year that vocational programs and related activities were supported under P.L. 94-482, this report describes the impact for each section of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976 on the growth and development of vocational and technical education. Materials, divided into two sections on state vocational and national…
Descriptors: Displaced Homemakers, Educational Cooperation, Educational Legislation, Educationally Disadvantaged
Hudson, Lisa – 1994
This document, the fourth of five volumes that comprise the final report of the National Assessment of Vocational Education focuses on programs and services provided for special population groups targeted by the 1990 Perkins Act. Chapter 1 assesses the extent to which states and localities are fulfilling responsibilities concerning special…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, American Indians, Correctional Education
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1996
This document is a comprehensive report of Ohio activities related to the expenditures of federal funds under the Carl Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990. Section I describes the progress Ohio has made in achieving the objectives outlined in the State Plan for the Administration of Vocational Education in Ohio. It…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Development
Towns, Kathryn; And Others – 1980
These guidelines are designed to help public school system vocational educators establish programs and services for displaced homemakers within the framework of vocational technical school and community college programs. The main body of the guide consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the special needs of displaced…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Continuing Education, Cooperative Education
