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Download full textDonaldson, William S. – 1993
The Summer Academic Skills Enhancement Program (SASEP) was offered in June-August 1993 to provide Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) clients with the reading comprehension and language mechanics skills required for employment in entry-level positions. A total of 125 referred clients were enrolled into both of two remedial courses of study.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Grammar, Pretests Posttests
Peer reviewedNwagwu, Emmanuel C. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1993
Reviews Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) services and JTPA's potential for helping community colleges retain students. Discusses how community colleges can effectively expand their role in meeting the educational needs of JTPA participants through collaborative job training efforts with private enterprise. (DMM)
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
Survey of Basic Skills Remediation Practices in JTPA Youth Programs. Monograph Series Vol. 2, No. 1.
Center for Remediation Design, Washington, DC. – 1988
The Center for Remediation Design and Brandeis University (Massachusetts) conducted a series of telephone interviews to develop a manual of assessment for Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) youth programs. These interviews were conducted with youth planners in each service delivery area during August 1987. The goal of this project was to explore…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Attendance, Basic Skills, Incentives
Crawford, Everett – 1988
A study was conducted to identify new points of intervention into the education and social development of economically and educationally disadvantaged youth considered at risk of dropping out of school and never successfully participating in the labor market. The demographic characteristics of the target population were studied, as well as past…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adolescents, Basic Skills, Dropout Prevention
Trego, Nancy ReMine – 1987
Amendments to the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) require each service delivery area to develop an educational component as part of its Summer Youth Employment Program. The Summer Youth Employment Program enhances the basic educational skills of youth, encourages school completion for enrollment in supplementary or alternative school programs,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Delivery Systems, Dropouts
Shumer, Robert D. – 1993
In one attempt to deal with the dropout problems, faculty from the University of California (Los Angeles) have forged a partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District and have turned existing high schools and continuation schools into community-based learning (CBL) programs. High school students in these programs attend field sites 2…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Case Studies, College School Cooperation
