This publication provides a summary of 2015 and time-series data relating to students, programs, subjects, training providers and funding in Australia's government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system (broadly defined as all activity delivered by government providers and government-funded activity delivered by community education…

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) funds and administers education programs for a variety of purposes and recognizes and rewards excellence and improvement by students, schools, and communities. As publicly funded schools, charter schools are eligible to apply for federal formula grants as well as discretionary grants administered by various ED…

This project assesses the feasibility of creating a voluntary, nationwide data dictionary that can be used to standardize the reporting of postsecondary accountability reporting requirements for the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (otherwise known as Perkins IV). Variables, field codes, and programming instructions,…

Educational reform in the United States is perpetually evolving. Much of the recent reforms have concentrated on high-stakes testing and assessment, but a parallel effort has been emerging in the field of vocational and career education. Prompted partly by federal legislation--most recently by the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act…

Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…

The National Research Center on Career and Technical Education has supported four studies on one of the major components of Perkins legislation: programs of study. In this article, we present qualitative data linking the research center's longitudinal projects based on programs of study, via a one-time cross-case study of sites deemed highly…

Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…

The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 challenged vocational educators to set up meaningful services for persons with special needs. Pennsylvania vocational educators feel they have begun to accept this challenge. This report reviews the major programs that received funds for the disadvantaged in Pennsylvania under Public Law 90-576 during…

A rehabilitation project at the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury which provided job training for inmates in such occupations as maintenance men, farmhands, cook helpers, and general maids. (BC)

The project was created to train the unemployed and underemployed in the Mobile area in skills qualifying them for jobs in Alabama's expanding industrial complex. Developments in the administration, recruiting, counseling, community service, training, job development and placement, and followup of the project from January 1, 1968 through February…

Goal of this program is to place the migrant and seasonal farm worker youth dropouts into vocational training, good-paying jobs with a future, or college. (DM)

Described in this report is a job placement exemplary project conducted at Maury High School in Norfolk, Virginia from 1973 to 1976. Goals of the project were to provide placement services to all students seeking part-time, temporary, or full-time employment. Procedures included organization of the administrative job placement office and…

The 1977 annual report of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education is presented in this document. Section 1 describes the Council functions. Names and addresses of council members are listed in section 2. Dates and locations of meetings held during 1977 are given in section 3. The next section summarizes council activities for 1977,…

The monograph is designed to encourage developmentally disabled consumers and their advocates to understand, use, and influence their state vocational education and vocational rehabilitation programs. Part I presents an historical discussion of the development of vocational education and vocational rehabilitation. Parallels are drawn between the…

This publication provides information on the National Apprenticeship Program, the coalition of management, labor, and government that supports the apprenticeship program in the United States. The program and apprenticeship are described, and the importance of apprenticeship is touched upon. The goals of the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training…