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Attivo, Barbara J.; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to examine methods through which Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants may be awarded credit for participation in CETA-sponsored programs in Pennsylvania. To accomplish this, CETA prime sponsors, CETA program operators, and a group of randomly selected potential program operators were surveyed. After…
Descriptors: College Credits, Credits, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Peer reviewedHolloway, Wilfred B. – Education and Urban Society, 1981
Attributes the lack of success among youth employment/education programs over the past 50 years in part to inadequate evaluation of concept development, program implementation, and individual outcomes. Discusses objectives, implementation, and results of various private and government-supported youth employment and school to work plans. (JCD)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Programs
Mugerauer, Cynthia – 1984
This guide is designed to assist Texas Job Training Partnership Act program staff and Private Industry Council (PIC) members in developing quality local youth competency systems that reach beyond the state-established minimum criteria. Section I discusses background, purposes, and limitations of the document and cites additional sources of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Competency Based Education, Employment Programs
Human Environment Center, Washington, DC. – 1985
Urban conservation and service corps units, which provide jobs to disadvantaged youth and engage them in activities beneficial to the wider society, such as building or restoring city facilities, are discussed in this document, which contains two separate reports. Report 1 describes the origin and basic features of urban corps programs in New York…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Financial Support, Minority Groups, Program Content
Download full textWood, Derek E. – 1988
The five main issues that are currently confronting vocational educators and policymakers in New Zealand are as follows: participation rates in vocational education and training, the changing role of vocational education and training in secondary schools, new initiatives in light of youth unemployment and transition difficulties, recognition of…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
Coughlin, David C.; Bielen, Rhonda P. – 1981
This paper has been prepared to assist the United States Department of Labor to explore new approaches to evaluating and measuring the performance of employment and training activities for youth. As one of several tools for evaluating success of local youth training programs, "benchmarking" provides a system for measuring the development…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Benchmarking, Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Criteria
Maine State Dept. of Labor, Augusta. – 1985
This document provides a technical model of the preemployment skills area of the Youth Employment Competency System that service delivery areas (SDAs) are required to operate under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The model is intended as a program development aid to SDA staff and JTPA service providers. Section I deals primarily with the…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Competency Based Education, Coping, Curriculum Guides
Opportunities Academy of Management Training, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1986
This technical assistance guide is designed to expedite the implementation of partnerships between vocational education and community-based organizations (CBOs) as called for in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. It is probably most useful as a resource for local training activities related to CBO/vocational education/Job…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Cooperative Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Wisconsin Governor's Employment and Training Office, Madison. – 1984
These two volumes of a resource manual are intended to provide technical assistance to Private Industry Councils regarding attainment of employment competencies by youth enrolled in employment and training programs funded by the Job Training Partnership Act. Volume I defines youth competencies, lists major categories of the recommended…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Employment Programs
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1978
The Work-Education Consortium Project involves more than thirty communities which have formed local councils to improve the relationship between the educational system and the employment system in their areas. The councils, each autonomous, are loosely organized and funded under the Department of Labor's Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Consortia, Cooperative Programs
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1971
This 2-part experimental and demonstration project report is based on research and analysis conducted by the Center for Urban Programs at St. Louis University. Part I, which is derived from observations of summer youth employment programs in several cities, describes a general program guide for operating future summer youth employment programs.…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Admission Criteria, Career Awareness, Career Education
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1997
Work force development systems have three primary subsystems: youth development and preparation for employment, adult work force entry, and worker retraining and transition assistance. Programs targeting youth pose one of the greatest challenges to those striving to develop or improve work force development systems. School-to-work will not…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Education Work Relationship, Educational Strategies, Entry Workers
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1990
This document reports the evaluation of the collaborately developed Modular Training Framework (MainFrame), a British curriculum development project, built around a commitment to a competency-based, modular credit accumulation program. The collaborators were three local education authorities (LEAs), those of Bedfordshire, Haringey, and Sheffield,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Articulation (Education), Competency Based Education, Cooperative Programs
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1982
This handbook for vocational educators, counselors, employment and training program staff, and youth agency personnel contains ideas for planning and delivering coordinated youth employment services by vocational education and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) employment and training programs. Following an overview, section 1…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Education Work Relationship
Wasil, Raymond A. – 1974
The guide argues for the establishment of placement services in secondary schools and provides detailed instructional units and suggestions for conducting pre-employment clinics which aim to provide all students leaving school with a basic understanding and working knowledge of the skills necessary to seek out and obtain employment or additional…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Employment Qualifications, Employment Services, High School Students
