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Download full textShaw, Lois B. – 1979
In recent years considerable concern has been expressed for the plight of the displaced homemaker, a women who, after spending many years working in the home, must reenter the labor market to provide the primary support for a family. In 1978 Congress added to Title 3 of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act a special program to assist…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Displaced Homemakers, Employed Women
Sullins, W. Robert; And Others – 1980
A project was conducted to determine problems or barriers prohibiting awarding credit for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) training in Virginia. Potential solutions and strategies for their implementation were to be identified. A variety of methods were used to obtain information required to produce a Plan of Action that presents…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Credits, Educational Cooperation
Morgan, William R. – 1983
The National Longitudinal surveys (NLS) of Labor Market Behavior have been conducted by the Center for Human Resource Research at Ohio State University and supported by the Department of Labor since l966. In this paper, data from the fifth and newest NLS cohort, a national cohort of 12,686 youth who were aged 14-21 in 1979, are discussed.…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Aptitude Tests, Cohort Analysis, Data
Cook, Robert F.; And Others – 1985
A study examined the experiences of local governments throughout the United States in implementing the public service employment (PSE) component of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The study involved four rounds of observations (in July and December 1977, December 1979, and December 1980) of programs in 40 State and local…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged, Educational Needs, Employment Programs
Olson, Claire – 1977
The American Association of Community and Junior Colleges surveyed its 919 member colleges in 1976 regarding their knowledge of and participation in the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA) locally-based delivery system. Responses from 519 colleges (56.5%) revealed that 478 (88.6%) of the respondents participated in CETA at some…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Community Education, Federal Aid
Lapin, Joel D. – 1980
A study was conducted by Catonsville Community College (Maryland) to identify those factors that foster successful linkages between Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) sponsors and community colleges. The study involved: (1) identifying exemplary CETA/college linkages through consultation with experts in academe and government; (2)…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
Tolo, Kenneth, Ed. – 1979
An overview of the functions of preapprenticeship programs, this report contains a statement of need, definitions, description of component parts, examination of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) as a resource, and discussion of how to work with CETA. Preapprenticeship programs are defined as those which prepare individuals…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Definitions, Educational Opportunities, Evaluation Needs
Beder, Harold W.; And Others – 1979
A study analyzed the nature of the delivery system for adult occupational education provided by the public sector in four New Jersey counties and then across the country. Objectives were to describe, identify, and analyze existing linkage networks; factors affecting articulation; factors facilitating or impeding collaborative linkages between…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges
Mirengoff, William; Rindler, Lester – 1976
Part of a larger study of the social, economic, and political effects of the new Federal approach to delivery of manpower services, this report covers the early transition period (January-April 1975) of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA--P.L. 93-203), which was the first in a series of proposed special revenue-sharing…
Descriptors: City Government, Decentralization, Delivery Systems, Employment Programs
National League of Cities, Washington, DC. – 1980
This report makes recommendations to enhance the delivery of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) services to small-city youth. It draws on the data base created by National League of Cities Youth Employment activities which provided a profile of the small city in CETA youth program operations, identified kinds of problems that affect…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Greenwood, Katy; And Others – 1981
This report describes the ways in which the funds for supplemental vocational assistance provided by Title II, Part A, section 204 of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) amendments of 1978 have been used to provide services for eligible CETA participants in Texas. Outlined first are the climate and the background of CETA/education…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Educational Finance
Middle Cities Education Association, MI. – 1979
This report presents findings of surveys to determine the effects of the 1976 Vocational Education Amendments on the required coordination between the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and postsecondary vocational education at the federal, state, and local levels. An introduction is followed by a discussion (chapter 2) of results of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges
Levitan, Sar A., Ed.; Mangum, Garth L., Ed. – 1981
A summary of an in-depth study of the training component of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), this volume consists of a series of findings and recommendations emerging from a national survey of 476 CETA prime sponsors. It provides a comprehensive review of CETA training based on the analysis of longitudinal data on the quality,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Decentralization
Wilson, Thurlow R.; And Others – 1978
Results are presented of a project to analyze employment assistance given to persons fifty-five or older and to recommend improvements in older job seekers' employment services. (The project evolved from income security concerns expressed in the Older Americans Act.) The report, divided into seven chapters, reviews employment characteristics and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Demonstration Programs, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems
National Commission for Manpower Policy, Washington, DC. – 1976
The papers contained in this special report were written as background material for three conferences sponsored on behalf of the National Commission for Manpower Policy. (Information on the proceedings of the conferences can be found in a related document, ED 138 763.) The papers, by titles, included here are as follows: "Defining the…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Economic Change, Economic Development, Employment
