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Rothstein, Frances R. – 1988
This report provides information on the age differences, demographic characteristics, employment status, poverty status, and educational status of displaced homemakers and single parents in Texas. These statistics are summarized in 26 tables or graphs that break down the data by variables. The study concludes with implications for program design…
Descriptors: Demography, Displaced Homemakers, Early Parenthood, Educational Attainment
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1991
This document contains the complete text of federal laws related to vocational education, job training, rehabilitation, and related areas as amended through December 31, 1991. Statutes included are the: (1) Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act (Titles I-V); (2) Job Training Partnership Act (Titles I-VI); (3) Displaced Homemakers…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Apprenticeships, Children
Hill, Carol L., Comp. – 1980
This listing of federally produced curriculum and instructional materials for special needs groups is one of eight annotated bibliographies that provide information for vocational educators at the secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels. Introductory information given includes a description of how to use the listing and sources and ordering…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Education, Citations (References)
Spero, Abby – 1985
The Displaced Homemakers Network surveyed its 425 programs in the winter of 1985 to determine the extent and nature of services to displaced homemakers under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Also sought was information about the barriers to JTPA that kept program operators from bidding successfully for contracts. Finally, the survey…
Descriptors: Displaced Homemakers, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Females
Solow, Katherine; Walker, Gary – 1986
This study describes and assesses the early years of implementation of Title II-A of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in regard to its services to women. Title II of JTPA is the major Federal program intervention--funded at about 1.8 billion dollars annually--aimed at providing employment and training services for the economically…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Displaced Homemakers, Early Parenthood, Economically Disadvantaged
North Carolina State Dept. of Community Colleges, Raleigh. – 1988
This performance report summarizes the services and activities provided for youth and adults in secondary and postsecondary vocational education in North Carolina from July 1987-June 1988, as mandated by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. Data are provided to reflect services to special populations, trends, growth in enrollment,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged
Institute of Applied Research, St. Louis, MO. – 1989
This handbook is a summary of research that was a follow-up to a comprehensive study of women and employment conducted in 1987. In that study, a statewide sample of working women in Missouri was asked about problems ("barriers") they had experienced in relation to work. The data were analyzed in terms of women reporting the most severe…
Descriptors: Day Care, Disadvantaged, Displaced Homemakers, Employed Women
Michigan Governor's Office for Job Training, Lansing. – 1984
This document lists 35 training programs in Michigan that provide job training assistance to nearly 1,000,000 people, with an annual investment of more than $800 million in federal, state, local, and private funds. The programs illustrate the two-fold purpose of job training: to build and maintain Michigan's reputation for a skilled, versatile…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, American Indians, Correctional Education
Harlan, Sharon L., Ed.; Steinberg, Ronnie J., Ed. – 1989
This comprehensive review of the public system of occupational education and job training for women in the United States focuses on education and training for occupations that require less than a four-year college degree. Chapter 1, "Job Training for Women: The Problem in a Policy Context" (Harlan, Steinberg), sketches an outline of job training…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Armed Forces, Displaced Homemakers
Denny, James; And Others – 1989
A study was conducted in Illinois to determine how effectively the vocational education system was meeting its responsibilities to train, retrain, and upgrade employed and unemployed workers in new skills for which there is a demand in the state, under the terms of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. Responses were received from…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Compliance (Legal), Dislocated Workers
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1979
Covering 1978, the first year that vocational programs and related activities were supported under P.L. 94-482, this report describes the impact for each section of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976 on the growth and development of vocational and technical education. Materials, divided into two sections on state vocational and national…
Descriptors: Displaced Homemakers, Educational Cooperation, Educational Legislation, Educationally Disadvantaged
Worthington, Robert M. – 1985
The emphasis on achieving sex equity, begun under the Education Amendments of 1976, continues and expands with the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. As in the 1976 amendments, the states are required to assign one person full-time responsibility for fulfilling mandated functions relative to sex equity. However, the new Act provides the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education