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A general discussion of the history of the Title II training program briefly reviews accomplishments from its beginning in August 1962 through the end of 1966. During this period, training opportunities under institutional, on-the-job, and combination programs were authorized for over 835,000 persons at a cost of over $1 billion. Training was…

This report provides a comprehensive model of an optimum apprenticeship program, using survey and interview data to determine the essential characteristics of such a program. The model is intended to serve as a framework for constructing new programs and evaluating existing ones. Subsequent volumes will discuss survey findings in specific trade…

The paper deals with job analysis for the preparation of job training programs. The analytical approach involves five steps: enlisting support, examining the job, describing the job, analyzing training requirements, and planning the programs. Appendixes include methods of producing training schemes--the simple job breakdown, straightforward…

This document reports a 1967 summer pilot program designed to serve as a model for uniting the Youth Tutoring Youth concept with the Neighborhood Youth Corps. An introductory section overviews the project in which 200 14- and 15-year olds who were not achieving well in school and who had fallen below grade level in reading were trained to serve as…

As background for assessing the feasibility and desirability of program development in the area of human relations, a wide ranging literature search was conducted to locate materials which would be of use in designing, producing, and evaluating a human relations training program for the Medical Library Association. Information was uncovered in…

The 1978 Civil Service Reform Act mandates federal executive development. Training policies will change because executive development is now part of the management-oriented Senior Executive Service, which will implement a performance evaluation system. Implications for the employee development community concern program expansion, funding and…

Outlines the similarities and differences between traditional degree programs and industrial training programs and offers suggestions for colleges initiating industrial training efforts, covering areas such as administrative responses, the target group, internal communication, faculty, instructional implications, program delivery, finances,…

This article describes a labor education program specifically targeted to working class women, who themselves form a minority within the labor movement. The focus of the article is on the Southern School for Union Women. (CT)

This planning guide describes the BEST Youth Development Practitioner Apprenticeship Program, provides perspectives on the benefits of apprenticeship and other considerations for community stakeholders, and offers guidance on planning milestones and activities needed to accomplish Youth Development Practitioner Apprenticeships through…

This second of four publications in the Neighborhood Networks Employment Series focuses on how Neighborhood Networks centers can deliver effective job development and placement programs for residents who are on public assistance, are unemployed, or are underemployed. This guide explains how Neighborhood Networks centers can develop relationships…

The authors believe that one should beware of adopting too general an approach to Third World training which fails to take account of different types of education and training. At the same time, they view the economy as a whole, including the rural sector and informal activities. (Author/CT)

In the countries of the Third World, the urgency and the immensity of the need for staff trained in the care of the mentally handicapped calls for the formulation of training programs which can be rapidly and realistically implemented, but which can still be integrated into medium and long term programs. Journal availability: see EC 133 861.…

A program is described in which home economics teacher educators at Texas Tech University developed a training program for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) clients which utilized the resources of both vocational educators and CETA personnel. Discusses organization of personnel, program implementation, results, and implications. (CT)