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Download full textKAUFMAN, JACOB J.; AND OTHERS – 1967
ISSUES IN THE EDUCATION OF YOUTH FOR EMPLOYMENT WERE INVESTIGATED. THE STUDY INCLUDED AN EVALUATION OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, ITS IMAGE, AND THE ROLE IT PLAYS IN THE TRAINING OF SUCH SPECIAL GROUPS AS GIRLS AND NEGROES. IT WAS FOUND THAT, FROM AN EARNING POINT-OF-VIEW, GRADUATES OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION CURRICULUMS DID AS WELL AS ACADEMIC GRADUATES,…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Job Skills, Job Training, Program Development
Peer reviewedMoore, Earl J. – Journal of Career Education, 1980
The staff of the Young Adult Training Center, Columbia, Missouri, used Canfield's Learning Styles Inventory to select enrollees for its training programs and to modify instructional strategies based on learner needs. The three vocational skill training programs involved were retail sales, building trades, and data entry. (CT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Diagnosis, Job Skills, Job Training
Williams, Norm; And Others – Youth Studies Bulletin, 1985
The subject of youth policy is discussed in three articles: youth policy developments in Western Australia, Australian Council of Trade Unions policies on youth employment and training, and an outline of developments and provisions in youth policy. (CT)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Job Training, Policy Formation
O'Neill, Michael; Elkington, Deborah – Youth Studies Bulletin, 1985
The authors outline the development of a youth policy as it exists in South Australia. They examine the background of the policy's formation, the draft of a discussion paper and the resulting dialogue, and priority areas considered in the youth policy document. (CT)
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Housing, Income, Information Services
Peer reviewedHolloway, Wilfred B. – Education and Urban Society, 1981
Attributes the lack of success among youth employment/education programs over the past 50 years in part to inadequate evaluation of concept development, program implementation, and individual outcomes. Discusses objectives, implementation, and results of various private and government-supported youth employment and school to work plans. (JCD)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Programs
Ketter, Per-Marcel; And Others – 1986
Intended as a planning and implementation aid for European political decision makers and organizers of projects that train and employ disadvantaged young people, this document consists of three sections. The first section systematically elaborates on major planning areas (objectives, pedagogy, integration into employment, staff qualifications, and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs, Foreign Countries
Christian, Susan M., Comp. – 1983
Fifteen national organizations involved in research, policy analysis, and/or implementation of state youth education and employment activities are described. This directory is intended to be a resource for persons responsible for adjusting programs to the requirements of the new federal employment and training legislation, the Job Training…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Federal Legislation, Federal State Relationship, Information Sources
Mugerauer, Cynthia – 1984
This guide is designed to assist Texas Job Training Partnership Act program staff and Private Industry Council (PIC) members in developing quality local youth competency systems that reach beyond the state-established minimum criteria. Section I discusses background, purposes, and limitations of the document and cites additional sources of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Competency Based Education, Employment Programs
1981
This paper provides a non-technical summary of the plans and rationale for eleven CETA-Education Demonstration Projects. It also explains the design of the projects and indicates what is expected of the participating prime sponsors, education agencies, and federal departments. Seven principles relating to the need to alleviate youth unemployment…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Career Education, Demonstration Programs
Dingle Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1978
This report summarizes the major points and questions discussed at five regional workshops held to help the participants develop Local Education Agency (LEA) and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsor agreements as mandated by the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA). The content is presented in five…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Cooperative Programs, Credits, Employment Programs
Bailin, Michael A. – 1992
This testimony of the President of Public/Private Ventures (PPV) in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) is on the subject of designing effective youth services programs, particularly in light of the PPV's experience with its program, Summer Training and Education Program (STEP). Following a description of the background for this and similar programs, the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Sparks, Rita – 1974
The Oakland University Kresge Library in Rochester, Michigan placed 10 Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) enrollees in their library following assurances that they would be tested prior to placement and assigned to areas of their occupational choice. The project required 32 hours of work per week for 9 weeks at $2.00 per hour, paid by the NYC Program.…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Disadvantaged Youth, Failure, Job Analysis
Taggart, Robert – 1983
In times of economic recession, dollars for job training and job placement programs grow scarcer, and those that are available tend to go to middle-class workers who are displaced or temporarily unemployed. The structurally unemployed--primarily the poor, the less educated, and minority youth--find it harder to compete for the needed training, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development, Educational Needs
Opportunities Academy of Management Training, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1986
This technical assistance guide is designed to expedite the implementation of partnerships between vocational education and community-based organizations (CBOs) as called for in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. It is probably most useful as a resource for local training activities related to CBO/vocational education/Job…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Cooperative Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
This booklet describes specific proposed and/or implemented strategies for dealing with some of the problems encountered in the CETA program. These strategies are directed toward four goals: (1) helping those who need help most; (2) creating a jobs program that goes where the jobs are: the private sector; (3) better management, delivering more job…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Employment Programs
