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United States R and D Corp., New York, NY. – 1971
The New York Industrial Education Centers combined the application of basic literacy, basic mathematics, and human development skills with exhaustive job development and placement efforts to secure jobs and upward mobility for persons 17-65 classified as disadvantaged. Training was conducted in 10-week cycles, with 100 trainees at each of two…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cost Effectiveness
Portland Community Coll., OR. – 1993
The B-WEST (Building Workers Entering Skilled Trades) project was an 18-month demonstration project at a campus of Portland Community College (Oregon). During the B-WEST project, the following programs/components were developed: (1) a model building construction (electrical, mechanical, construction) trades program for unemployed and underemployed…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Building Trades, Community Colleges, Demonstration Programs
Ohio State Council on Vocational Education, Westerville. – 1988
A study examined a number of local settings in Ohio in which coordination and collaboration between key providers of services under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) were deemed exemplary. Its purpose was to identify elements contributing to successful coordination and collaboration that could be of potential use to others. Researchers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Fordham Univ., Bronx, NY. Graduate School of Education. – 1991
This report provides an account of the Comprehensive Learning Program, an experimental program in literacy provided to adults by Fordham University's School Consultation Center (New York). The program targeted learning-disabled adults whose lack of literacy skills resulted in unemployment or significant underemployment. The program's design…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Basic Skills, College Programs
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Garet, Michael S. – 1973
A study of underemployment, written as part of the development of a management information project (MISOE) for the Division of Occupational Education of the Department of Education in Massachusetts, the work represents the beginning of an effort to bring systematic, empirically based policy analysis to bear on problems of occupational education.…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Demonstration Programs, Employment Problems, Employment Projections
Speight, John F.; And Others – 1973
The report provides a detailed review of the seven and one-half year Mississippi Labor Mobility Project, STAR, Inc., whose operations and research concerned the utility and feasibility of subsidizing worker relocation assistance to the unemployed/underemployed poor for the purposes of improving their economic and social opportunities. Almost 2,500…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Employment Opportunities
Tuskegee Inst., AL. – 1968
A project to provide basic education, counseling and occupational training to 125 unemployed or underemployed heads of families or households from rural areas of Alabama, and to secure employment for them at the conclusion of the program was conducted at Tuskegee. The four technical areas in which training was offered were brickmasonry, carpentry,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Bricklaying
Speight, John F.; And Others – 1973
The report uses the experiences of the Mississippi Labor Mobility Project, STAR, Inc. (MLMP, STAR, Inc.), and the reports from other experimental labor mobility projects to respond to the problems of clarifying relocation assistance delivery techniques and services as they relate to the goals and objectives of manpower services. The population…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Employment Opportunities
Weseman, Marcus – 1980
The United States Departments of Energy (DOE) and Labor (DOL) have cosponsored a number of demonstration programs to train economically disadvantaged migrant and seasonal farmworkers for energy-related technical and skilled occupations. A descriptive study of the first DOE/DOL demonstration was made to determine the impact of training on…
Descriptors: Adults, Agricultural Laborers, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs
Illinois Univ., Urbana. Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education. – 1979
This report of a project to begin to develop a plan for research, development, and instruction in adult vocational education in Illinois has two specific goals: (1) to identify the current status of adult vocational education in Illinois and (2) to recommend key directions for state actions. It presents information collected through a…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Articulation (Education), Career Change
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. Div. of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1982
This compendium provides information on 39 promising practices in vocational adult education selected during the 1981-82 school year. Criteria for selection are to meet an identified need for a specific problem or target population, measurability of indicators of success, possibility of adaptation by others, and practicality of resources required…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Career Counseling, Career Education