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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1996
The General Accounting Office reviewed the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) program, which was established in 1972 to help disability benefit recipients return to employment. The study evaluated the SSA's management of the PASS program, including the program's impact on employment, and sought to…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Federal Programs, Incentives
Leidner, Henry Robert – 1993
Due to changes in agriculture and the resulting decline in numbers of migrant families, many migrant programs must redefine job responsibilities and retrain and reassign migrant support personnel. This practicum was aimed at retraining migrant educational and health support personnel in the job skills necessary to move into available Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Dislocated Workers, Elementary Secondary Education, Mentors
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Small Business. – 1994
This document records the oral and written testimony given by witnesses at a series of three Congressional hearings conducted in 1993 to review federal retraining programs for dislocated workers. Witnesses included representatives of federal and state agencies, and Private Industry Councils. Witnesses testified about their programs and what has…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Educational Needs, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Hernando County School Board, Brooksville, FL. – 1987
A program was developed to provide single parents who were without marketable skills with the training or retraining necessary to secure and keep a job in the health care field. During the course of the project, 31 trainees between the ages of 21 and 60 who were living below the poverty level were recruited into the program. They received…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Displaced Homemakers, Economically Disadvantaged, Home Health Aides
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1989
Within this document is testimony delivered by seven individuals at a Congressional hearing on what role government and education should play in revitalizing U.S. productivity. Of particular interest at the hearing was a study made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Commission on Industrial Productivity entitled "Made in…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Hearings
Osbat, Luciano – 1986
A study examined the volume and quality of distance training in Italy, the bodies most directly interested, and problems and trends. Two factors were singled out that not only led to greater interest in distance training between 1970 and 1980 but also to the first experiments being carried out--the economic crisis and the modernization process.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Developed Nations, Distance Education
Smith, Edward J. – 1986
The Carnation-ILWU (International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union) Project attempted to find employment for a group of unskilled and semiskilled manufacturing workers displaced by the closing of the Carnation Company of Oakland, California. Although more than 2,000 employers were contacted in Alameda County in the year following the…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Employer Attitudes, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Stohrer, Freda F. – 1986
The rapid technological advancement that U.S. society is experiencing has increased the likelihood that workers will have to be trained and retrained throughout their working lives to meet continually changing job requirements. This situation has challenged instructors of technical communication who are faced with the overlap of traditional…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Corporate Education, Educational Needs, Industrial Training
La Barre, Allan A. – 1986
A holistic approach to planning the preretirement education of active duty noncommissioned officers was formulated on the basis of Sample and Kaufman's Organizational Elements Model. The approach stresses removing the responsibility for education and employment of veterans from the state and Federal level and placing it on the individual soldier.…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Holistic Approach, Military Personnel, Models
McGeever, James M. – 1984
The first portion of this document presents a review of literature indicating shortages of teachers in mathematics and science. In the second portion, solution strategies are discussed. Twenty-two states have initiated financial-incentive programs, while 27 states have used training or retraining programs. Federal, state, and local efforts are…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Educational Research, Incentives, Mathematics Education
Mitchell, Barbara J. – 1978
This manual is intended for use in pre-employment or upgrading training programs for persons who are planning to work or are presently working in the hotel and restaurant food service industry. Eleven chapters cover interpersonal relationships with employers, fellow employees, and customers; grooming and personal hygiene; sanitary food handling;…
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Food Service, Hospitality Occupations, Inservice Education
Bendick, Marc, Jr. – 1983
Market-oriented industrial nations other than the United States have experienced rapid structural changes in their economies and reemployment problems among dislocated midcareer workers. The Swedish active labor market approach is a socialized one. This system has been criticized for excessive reliance on microeconomic labor market programs to…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Education, Developed Nations, Employment Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Small Business. – 1983
This document is a transcript of a Congressional hearing held in May 1983 to discuss the impact of robots and computers on the work force of the 1980s. At the hearing, testimony was given and prepared statements were recorded from more than a dozen persons representing universities, technological industries, government and private agencies that…
Descriptors: Adults, Computers, Demand Occupations, Dislocated Workers
Hill, William C. – 1981
If what is known about selective processes of perception is coupled with awareness of the extremely rapid pace of classroom interaction, the classroom setting becomes one in which differential teacher expectations are likely to be formed and maintained. In fact, research findings reveal the power of teacher expectations: high teacher expectations…
Descriptors: Bias, Class Size, Classroom Communication, Elementary Education
ARNOLD, WALTER M. – 1966
THE APPRENTICE TRADES BUILDING AT SAN DIEGO MESA COLLEGE WAS ERECTED WITH COOPERATIVE FINANCING BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (UNDER THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT OF 1963), THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL SYSTEM, LABOR UNIONS, AND INDUSTRY. THE STRUCTURE AND SITE COST OF $339,000 WAS PROVIDED FROM FEDERAL AND SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDS, WHILE THE EQUIPMENT, WORTH…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, College Buildings, Educational Facilities, Retraining
