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Peer reviewedVogler, Daniel E.; Manley, Katherine K. – Community Services Catalyst, 1982
Describes the past, present, and possible future influences of the decade-old Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Highlights community services and continuing education linkage activities. Presents policy considerations regarding participants, organization, personnel, finances, curriculum, and evaluation. Illustrates programmatic…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Services, Continuing Education
Willis, Bernice H., Ed. – 1981
Part of a conference on education in the South, this session on educational policy issues of the 1980's includes 18 papers divided among five panels. In the first panel, four papers forecast the next decade's critical educational problems and policy issues, including demographic and social shifts, changes in educational governance and finance, the…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textNational Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
This document presents recommendations made to the Administration and Congress concerning future federal funding for vocational education and the staff report reviewing the federal role in vocational education. Part A lists recommendations for federal funds: (1) limitation to appropriations furthering the national interest, (2) use for program…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Research, Employment Programs, Employment Projections
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
A review of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA's) results, strengths, and weaknesses, and future role in light of expected economic and technological changes indicates that it is time to strengthen--though not necessarily enlarge--America's only available second-chance training system. Cost-benefit analysis of the major CETA…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Economic Change, Economic Factors
Newton, Mark, Comp.; Cox, Sterling, Comp. – 1979
These proceedings of a conference for state directors of vocational education on the topic of charting a course of excellence for vocational education in the 1980s consist of the texts of 13 conference papers, the conference agenda, and a listing of program presentations and participants. Topics of the first group of papers, which all revolve…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation
National Council on Employment Policy, Washington, DC. – 1982
Policymakers must review the accomplishments of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), problems associated with suggestions for its reform, and incremental reforms to the program that are required and possible. Despite the fact that research generally attests to CETA's success, the system suffers from a poor public image.…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Educational Needs
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
Designed to provide information on the linkages achieved under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA), this report focuses on education/Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) linkages, the vocational education/CETA connection, and the role of postsecondary institutions (particularly minority colleges) in achieving…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Certification, College Credits
Ford Foundation, New York, NY. – 1983
While minority youth and adults have traditionally experienced high rates of unemployment, recent demographic, educational, and technological changes have all combined to cause a sharp increase in the numbers of unemployed and displaced minority group workers. A review of past employment and training programs such as the Comprehensive Employment…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Literacy, Adults, Articulation (Education)
Attwood, Madge, Ed. – 1981
This monograph presents the views of four scholars concerning the relationship between education and work. In a paper entitled "Research and Evaluation Issues in Vocational Education," John T. Grasso focuses on the responsibility of vocational education to youth. The second paper, "Occupational Training: For Employers, for Trainers,…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Assessment, Educational Benefits, Educational Legislation
Greenwood, Katy B., Ed. – 1981
This yearbook contains 24 reports concerning the following seven challenges currently facing vocational education: new needs for job training, reexamining value bases, a growing network of vocational educators, reflecting on past effectiveness, the continuing challenge to meet individual and special needs, strengthening curricula and instruction,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Blacks, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
