Illinois is investing in bridge programs as a strategy to help more low-skilled and low-wage workers improve their skills, acquire postsecondary credentials, and move up to better jobs. This guidebook is built on early lessons of bridge programs in Illinois. It is designed as a resource for those who want to develop a new bridge program or…

Amendments to the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 consist of the following: (1) Section I extends the labor mobility demonstration projects, trainee placement assistance demonstration projects, and training and appropriations in correctional institutions to June 30, 1970; operating authority to June 30, 1972; and disbursement…

This report presents the results of a study to design the appropriate evaluation system needed at the Department of Labor for decentralized operation of a comprehensive manpower program. It covers not only the priority evaluations needed and the methods of performing them, but also changes required in planning, reporting, and administration in…

The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's efforts to coordinate manpower progrmas at the local level is currently causing a big rush to set up mechanisms to operate a manpower services system. Denver, however, started in mid-1973 reorganizing a bewildering variety of categorical manpower programs along functional lines. (DS)

Two equally important and parallel developments have been working together: first, the emergence of a substantial and well-defined national role in career education and second, the explosive expansion of the system of career education. Career education first should provide meaningful, practical, open-ended career education in communities and…

This annual report is the ninth in a series of reports concerning the activities of the New York State Education Department in the manpower training effort, and it offers a narrative description and rationale of the activities of the Bureaus of Manpower Program Development and Manpower Program Supervision during 1971. The goals of the manpower…

Describes Mississippi's cooperative efforts between the State Department of Education and industries in curriculum development associated with start-up training, vocational training designed to attract new industry into a community and to prepare workers for the newly attracted industry. (Editor/TA)

A training specialist who moved from higher education to the corporate world relates some of his experiences, including how he developed a management training system. Problems educators face in the corporate environment are discussed, as are suggestions about how teacher educators can prepare people for the business world. (Author/PP)

An industrial study group was contracted to perform a systems analysis of institutional training conducted under the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) of 1962, as amended, in order to: (1) illuminate management decisions in the areas of program priorities, alternative methods of administration, and allocation of resources, and (2)…

The report presents a review of institutional manpower training programs conducted in the State during the 1973 Federal fiscal year. Two major manpower training objectives are used for the basis of the report: to provide education, supportive services, and training opportunities for unemployed and underemployed individuals and to provide education…

During fiscal year 1968, significant changes and improvements in vocational and technical education were reported across the nation. The continuing flow of federal funds and the greater program flexibility under the Vocational Education Act of 1963, together with increased state and local expenditures, made possible expansion of ongoing programs…

This guide was prepared to assist administrators and directors of training in planning and operating programs to train or upgrade personnel in general household service occupations and special areas. Topics cover: (1) Purpose of the Training Program, (2) Planning the Program, which includes establishing the need, program objectives, and advisory…

The Iowa State Manpower Development Council was established as an experiment in local coordination of federal, state and community manpower programs. Shifts in the occupational and industrial attachment of workers and heavy out-migrations of workers from rural to urban areas underscored the importance of human resource development. The major goal…

This document, the second of a 2-volume report, contains appendixes of data tables and other study materials relating to the feasibility of establishing Highway Safety Manpower Development and Research Centers. Appendixes are: (1) Skills and Disciplines Required for Highway Safety Education and Training, (2) Development of Program Strategy for the…

This report contains a list of 21 contacts and 9 references concerned with workplace literacy programs in the hotel and food service industries. Each listing includes addresses and telephone numbers, prices if applicable, and a brief description of the resource or materials. The materials listed are mostly reports of workplace literacy projects in…