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Direct linkOchoa, Theresa A.; Maki Weller, Nicole; Fordham, Tyeisha T. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2023
The Second Chance Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act encourage juvenile justice personnel to collaborate with not-for-profit organizations, employers, and community schools to provide incarcerated girls with disabilities transition support to reenter their community after incarceration. The "Career and College…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Equal Education
Download full textGriffiths, Amy Jane; Nash, Angel Miles; Maupin, Zachary; Mathur, Sneha Kohli – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) related fields comprise the top 30 occupations expected to grow the fastest by 2026. This increase in job opportunities, coupled with the evolution of technology, is creating higher demands for diversity in the labor market. Currently all students require innovative training and support from a…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Students with Disabilities, Barriers
Powell, Anna; Montoya, Elena; Austin, Lea J. E.; Kim, Yoonjeon; Muruvi, Wanzi; Copeman Petig, Abby – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2023
Early care and education (ECE) programs for children prior to kindergarten in California are provided through a mixed delivery system that includes licensed home- and center-based programs as well as school settings. The requirements, experience, and supports for educators vary widely across settings, depending more on funding sources and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Mbano, Nellie; Nolan, Kathleen – Science Education International, 2017
In Malawi, in spite of a number of gender equity policies and initiatives that encourage females to pursue careers within the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), research indicates that they are under-represented in these fields. One initiative recommended to address the factors contributing to this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Females, Womens Education
Academy for Educational Development, 2012
Transitions between education cycles represent one of the greatest hazards for girls in their educational journey throughout the developing world. It is not uncommon across sub-Saharan Africa for girls' secondary enrollment rates to drop 75% from primary enrollment rates. Between the secondary level and the tertiary level, enrollment rates often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Developing Nations, Transitional Programs
Beck, Suzanne L. – 1988
Career preparation, of which formal vocational education is only a part, must be integrated into handicapped students' education. To prepare handicapped students for employment, their disabilities and abilities need to be identified and understood and their skills and interests should be matched to appropriate training and employment. Meaningful…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disabilities, Equal Education, Federal Legislation
Rousso, Harilyn, Ed.; Wehmeyer, Michael L., Ed. – 2001
Highlighting the educational issues of girls and young women with disabilities, this book examines how they are exposed to discrimination based on gender and disability/special education status, and how they experience less successful vocational outcomes than males with disabilities and typical female peers upon leaving school. It also describes…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Design, Disabilities
Women Work! The National Network for Women's Employment, Washington, DC. – 1992
The Coalition on Women and Job Training has developed a women's job training agenda that focuses on nine issues related to women's full participation in training and achievement of economic self-sufficiency. The issues highlighted in the agenda are as follows: (1) the need to make long-term economic self-sufficiency the goal of all employment and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Coordination, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
