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Download full textHilliard, Thomas – Center for an Urban Future, 2011
Even before the Great Recession prompted policymakers to take a closer look at public programs designed to help unemployed Americans re-enter the workforce it had long been clear that federal, state and local government workforce development programs have not always effectively prepared low-income individuals to obtain decent-paying jobs. Job…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Job Training, Educational Change, Local Government
Ferver, Jack C. – 1969
Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 has demonstrated that institutions of higher learning can make an important contribution to the solution of community problems through community service projects. But there are limitations, the greatest of which are lack of adequate program funds and mounting program needs, particularly for programs…
Descriptors: Community Services, Disadvantaged, Financial Support, Personnel Needs
Samuels, Frank – Adult Leadership, 1975
ABE urban extension presents one approach to the solution of the educational problems of the urban disadvantaged. Five potential problem areas are identified, realizing that even if they are resolved by intervention strategy, success depends upon appreciation of ABE participants as "legitimate" students with accompanying rights, duties, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Change Strategies, Disadvantaged, Educational Problems
Boyd, Robert D., Ed. – 1969
In this collection of ten papers, information and ideas are presented on the roles of university adult educators as change agents in urban America. The first paper places certain issues of urban extension and change in a historical and sociological perspective. Another paper urges stronger ties between nonprofessional and professional workers in…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Change Agents, Disadvantaged, Indigenous Personnel
Peer reviewedHampton, Leonard A.; Ashton, Dub – Journal of Extension, 1979
Reports results from a survey--conducted under the auspices of the Neighborhood Continuing Education Program of Savannah, Georgia--of residents of a former model cities area to find out what education and retraining they might want and need, with implications for extension programing. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Community Education, Community Surveys
HUNTER, STARLEY M.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE PRESENT STUDY, INVOLVING 129 DISADVANTAGED FAMILIES IN THE SOUTH END HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, BOSTON, WAS MADE IN 1964 TO ASSESS THE EXTENT TO WHICH SOUTH END FAMILIES HAD BEEN REACHED BY MASSACHUSETTS EXTENSION SERVICE PROGRAMS SINCE A PREVIOUS (1962) SURVEY OF NEEDS, THE MEANS BY WHICH THEY HAD BEEN REACHED, AND CHANGES IN ATTITUDES AND…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Behavior Change, Consumer Economics, Disadvantaged
Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins. Cooperative Extension Service. – 1968
This report briefly reviews America's national heritage and the evolution of public agencies and institutions, outlines current national goals, examines the problem of Americans isolated from the mainstream of society, analyzes the present activities of the Cooperative Extension Service, and gives the Joint Committee's recommendations for the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agriculture, Audiences, Concept Formation
