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Bureau of Occupational and Adult Education (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. Div. of Research and Demonstration. – 1978
To provide information on the third three-year round of exemplary projects funded under Section 142 (c) of Part D of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 (Public Law 90-576), this document includes abstracts of projects initiated in fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977. Each of the sixty-two abstracts included in the document contain the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Demography, Demonstration Programs, Federal Legislation
Download full textSopris West, Inc., Longmont, CO. – 1988
This publication presents an overview of all educational programs approved for national dissemination by the Department of Education. The projects are divided into the following sections: (1) adult education; (2) administration/organizational arrangements; (3) alternative schools/programs/bilingual/migrant programs; (4) basic skills--language…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Quality
Springfield Goodwill Industries, Inc., MA. – 1967
A multi-phased demonstration and research project was established to assist with rehabilitation problems of severely disabled and handicapped persons. Services made available were: (1) evaluation of the individual's vocational potential, (2) work and personal adjustment programs, (3) training courses not available through traditional sources, (4)…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Counseling
Smith, Thomas J.; And Others – 1988
This guide to youth unemployment problems is based on the belief that a comprehensive system of program initiatives offers the best solutions. The principal focus is on vocationally at-risk youth. The first chapter defines and describes the target group, and outlines needs and appropriate responses. The second section describes the following eight…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
This document, which is in the form of a multiple-page table, provides the following information about each of the 163 currently existing federal employment training programs: (1) fiscal year 1995 appropriation; (2) summary of the program's purpose as it related to employment training activities; (3) authorizing legislation and U.S. Code citation;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Correctional Education, Demonstration Programs
Illinois Univ., Urbana. Leadership Training Inst./Vocational and Special Education. – 1982
This publication contains 60 abstracts of projects funded by the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education, to provide innovative preservice and inservice training initiatives for personnel in the area of career/vocational education for handicapped persons. Program areas covered in the abstracts include preservice and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Agency Cooperation, Career Development, Career Education
Currie, Sheila; Foley, Kelly; Schwartz, Saul; Taylor-Lewis, Musu – 2001
In 1998, Canada's Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) conducted case studies of two work-based training and skill development programs for street youth in Vancouver, British Columbia. The BladeRunners program places youth on construction sites while encouraging them to work toward an apprenticeship in the building trades. The…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Building Trades
Murphy, Garrett; Heitner, Bess – CAAL Bulletin, 2002
This document profiles 31 federal programs from which funding for adult literacy may be available. The document's three sections present descriptions of the following types of sources of funding and programs: (1) single pieces of legislation that contribute the major federal share of federal support for adult education in the United States; (2)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Alaska Natives
