With the signing of the bipartisan Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, Congress and the president managed to reauthorize the Carl T. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act (known as "Perkins"), after an earlier attempt in the Obama administration fizzled. Maria Ferguson describes the growing support…

The authors suggest that it will take a new dimension of teamwork under the Perkins Act to meet the challenges of the coming decade. Vocational education can be improved, they say, by close collaboration among the new state councils on vocational education, the state boards, the newly required technical committee, and a host of other groups. (CT)

The author reviews the history of vocational education legislation. He argues that reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984 will continue the social legislation trend of the past 25 years and that vocational educators should remain open to upcoming changes. (CH)

This report traces the historical evolution of vocational education in the United States and the impact of federal legislation in guiding that evolution. It states that since the earliest days of the country, vocational-technical education has been a largely decentralized, state- and locally-governed enterprise. However, federal initiatives…

Community-based organizations (CBOs) have been an integral part of the employment and training programs of the past two decades and have provided a wide variety of services to youth and adults alike. The vast differences between different CBOs make it impossible to draw definitive, generalizable conclusions about them. It appears, however, that…

Vocational education is a key to the education of the future, as the schools absorb more responsibility for preparing students to enter a rapidly expanding job market. Although there are great visions for the future of vocational education, there must be concern for daily details of financial management, personnel motivation, and administrative…

The Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act authorizes the use of community-based organizations of proven effectiveness, such as Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America (OIC), to be involved in improving the overall vocational education delivery system. State assistance for vocational education support by community-based organizations…

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.…

The Vocational Education Act of 1984 offers considerable opportunity for industrial arts. Because modern industrial arts (and agricultural arts) are listed as being eligible for funding from the Basic State Grant, Part B, most attention will be focused on this goal. Other Part B uses of funds with potential for industrial arts involvement include…

This report presents a summary of the work of Minnesota's State Council on Vocational Technical Education for the biennium ending June 30, 1995. Part 1 summarizes the council's research and development activities. It describes the following: trends in the distribution of state and federal funds for vocational education; conclusions of the Perkins…