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Direct linkBalcazar, Fabricio E.; Oberoi, Ashmeet K.; Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda; Alvarado, Francisco – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2012
A review of vocational rehabilitation (VR) data from a Midwestern state was conducted to identify predictors of rehabilitation outcomes for African American consumers. The database included 37,404 African Americans who were referred or self-referred over a period of five years. Logistic regression analysis indicated that except for age and…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, African Americans, State Agencies, Probability
Belzer, Alisa – Educational Policy, 2007
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) was the first legislation since 1991 to significantly revise federal funding for adult basic education (ABE). Federal ABE funds are distributed to state agencies that are in turn responsible for awarding the funds to local programs. In this role, the state agencies are in a pivotal in-between position in…
Descriptors: State Agencies, Adult Basic Education, Accountability, State Programs
Ignatowski, Clare A. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007
Although in the past the field of youth development has been subsumed within or occluded by other traditional development sectors such as education, a re-emerging emphasis on security in US government foreign assistance has tended to foreground youth as a frame of reference for international development programming and public diplomacy. While…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, International Relations, Social Change, Technical Assistance
Download full textBelzer, Alisa – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2003
Two federal laws with broad impact on adult basic education (ABE) have compelled the ABE system to contend with significant shifts in policy. Enacted in 1998, the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) integrated ABE into the federal workforce development system. Historically, ABE had been funded through education-oriented legislation. The Personal…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Welfare Services, Public Policy, Change
Belzer, Alisa – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2003
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act ("welfare reform") and the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) have influenced greatly the provision of services in adult basic education (ABE). WIA and welfare reform provide two excellent cases for the study of questions related to how federal legislation affects ABE…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Welfare Services, Public Policy, Federal Legislation
Butler, Fred Clayton – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
There are many thousands of people who are in a position to exert great influence in the work of Americanization, through their leadership or membership in State legislatures, State bureaus and departments, and State organizations, official and voluntary. The primary purpose of this book is to lay before that body of men and women some concrete…
Descriptors: Educational History, Immigrants, Citizenship Education, State Surveys
