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Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2024
The five-year initiative New Skills for Youth (NSFY) aimed to transform career readiness education and bridge the skills gap by supporting innovative strategies in 10 states across the United States. NSFY was one of the earliest and most impactful philanthropic investments in career pathways and career readiness in recent history and helped spark…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Youth Programs, Career Readiness, Federal Programs
National Skills Coalition, 2020
Over half of jobs in the U.S. require training beyond high school but not a four-year degree. These skilled jobs are the backbone of America's economy, and filling them is critical to America's success in the 21st century. Every day, in communities coast to coast, working people, students, and families are looking for opportunities to get ahead.…
Descriptors: Job Skills, 21st Century Skills, Labor Force Development, Partnerships in Education
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Roumell, Elizabeth Anne; Salajan, Florin D.; Todoran, Corina – Educational Policy, 2020
In the United States, adult and workforce education (AE) seems to be located, simultaneously, both everywhere and nowhere in particular. Ongoing shifts in national economic demands and changes in requirements for training and education have brought learning in the adult years into the federal public policy arena. Sometimes referred to as lifelong…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Adult Education, Educational History, Policy Formation
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Klatt, Malgorzata; Polesel, John – Australian Journal of Education, 2013
Education policy-making in Australia remains one of the most complex of government's responsibilities, affecting a broad spectrum of social and political advancements of national and international importance. The advancement of education policy has been accepted as a key factor in achieving the labour productivity and innovation capacity that are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Arcy, Thomas H. – Education, 1981
Emphasizes that, because policymaking is becoming more complex, today's vocational education leaders need to be aware of the process and importance of the social, political, economic, and technological forces that affect the future of the programs they administer. (Author/NEC)
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Federal Programs, Government School Relationship, Policy Formation
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Peterson, Paul E.; Rabe, Barry G. – Teachers College Record, 1983
A review of major federal education programs indicates that educational interest groups have played a modest role in shaping policy. Typically, these groups have ridden existing political and judicial currents to pass programs, and then have concentrated on maintaining their interests. Future roles are discussed. (PP)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation
Minugh, Carol J. – 1981
This analysis of legislation related to vocational education for Indian people was designed to assist vocational education planners at the local or tribal level. The analysis is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction and gives a brief background to vocational education as it relates to Indians. Chapter 2 presents an…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Educational Legislation, Educational Opportunities
Swanson, Gordon I. – 1984
Aimed at federal policymakers, this monograph presents a discussion of the role of excellence in vocational education and the role of the government in achieving it. The report is organized into five chapters. In the first chapter, the dimensions of excellence are examined with a focus on values, the atmosphere of crisis engendered in part by a…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Improvement, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy
Hughes, Ruth P. – 1984
Since vocational education is part of the secondary educational system, a system that is presently under close scrutiny and looking for ways to improve, it is appropriate to determine what the federal role might be in helping to achieve excellence in secondary vocational education. Federal policy has helped to shape secondary vocational education…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
Zeller, Frederick A., Ed.; Miller, Robert W., Ed. – 1968
Beginning with a review of the problems and general conditions of Appalachia, this book analyzes past, present, and future manpower needs at both the national and regional levels; outlines and discusses noteworthy Federal programs of manpower research and action; examines the role of formal education and training in manpower development as seen by…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Employment, Extension Education
Cummens, John A. – 1981
The issues of harmonization and autonomy as they affect vocational education and manpower policy development and the implementation of program service delivery are analyzed. Some of the background issues that have affected the relationship of vocational education and manpower, in particular the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), are…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy, Federal Government
Brecher, Charles – 1973
Authored by a political scientist, the study focuses on the impact of two alternative policies, "political strategy" and "service strategy," designed to deal with the problem of poverty in American society. The central concern is the effect of the policies on the poor. The service strategy assumes that the poor differ from the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disadvantaged, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Lopez-Valadez, Jeanne – 1988
Limited English proficient (LEP) persons comprise a significant and growing portion of the population of the United States. Although these people with their language, culture, and strong work ethic represent a valuable human resource for this country's future productivity, LEP persons are grossly underrepresented in vocational and educational…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education, Educational Finance
National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Washington, DC. – 1982
During the year 1981, the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education (NACVE), composed of 37 members, conducted 4 full-membership meetings, in addition to meetings of committees of the Council. As a result of these meetings, the Council issued seven papers on the following topics: vocational education in correctional institutions; policy…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Correctional Education, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Anton, Thomas J.; And Others – 1979
Fourteen planning papers commissioned by the National Institute of Education in preparation for a study of vocational education are presented. The papers are organized into four sections. Section one deals with selected features of federal grant-in-aid programs and contains these papers: "On Implementing the Vocational Amendments of…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Planning, Educational Policy, Educational Research
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