This document addresses issues concerning the development of innovative and performance-based methods to fund adult education, which was a recommendation in the 1989 California Strategic Plan for Adult Education. Specifically, it was recommended that funding policies and mechanisms be adjusted to allow and encourage "any-time, any-place,…

This report synthesizes the initial findings of a roundtable discussion related to both immigration and poverty and outlines some preliminary public policy conclusions in order to clarify immediate immigration policy proposals and potential poverty policy implications for the labor market relationship between Hispanic immigrants and disadvantaged…

This summary of the plans for additional research in the project called "Vocational Training and Regional Development" lists the following aspects and criteria of the common evaluation approach: regional framework conditions, program structure, organizational features, pedagogical approach, and procedure in evaluating the success of the…

Because the changing demographics of the U.S. work force are making cultural diversity the rule rather than the exception, the skills necessary for people to work in a multicultural environment are becoming a natural employment requirement. Those skills are integral to the tool that is called cross-cultural/intercultural/multicultural…

A project sought to develop a means of updating and retraining those required to comply with Britain's 1985 Building Regulations, which are substantially different from the previous ones in regard to procedures and technical content. The training needs analysis conducted indicated that the new training should be flexible and use practical and…

The Employer Specific Skills Training Program helps build the superior work force called for by the National Alliance of Business and other significant employer, union, government, and educational groups. Through a combination of state and federal funds, the New York State Department of Education has crafted a flexible and responsible program.…

This document reports on a bill (H.R. 4087) to amend Title 38 of the United States Code with respect to employment and training programs for veterans. By unanimous vote, the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs recommended passage of the bill as amended by the committee. The report first lists the proposed changes in the bill and then explains its…

The Douglas Education Service District, Winston Dillard School District, and the Special Education Department at Douglas High School in Winston, Oregon, developed a community-based education program that emphasizes ongoing job training for students with mental disabilities and the development of competitive employment in the community. The program…

In contrast to high technologies generally developed in the industrialized countries, technological development in the new industrial countries is mostly characterized by innovative efforts to change imported technologies over a period of time. Economic and social impacts of the introduction of new technologies include the significant reduction of…

Age appropriate training programs in natural environments for deaf-blind adolescents help to develop functional skills, with the ultimate goal of independent living and work placement. Other approaches to the education of handicapped children entail activity for the sake of activity, or babysitting and fun activities. The actual training of a…

To help improve formal journalism education in Nigeria, a study asked 165 editors at Nigeria's 32 major papers to compare journalists with and without degrees on issues relating to knowledge, competency, and personal attributes needed to work on the newspaper. It was hypothesized that editors with college degrees would rate journalists holding…

This book provides a model to help facilities for training handicapped persons to teach janitorial work and set up a contracting program for janitorial services. The book is organized in three sections. The first section outlines the training production model, including hints on beginning the venture, separation of training and contracting…

This paper advances the argument favoring criterion-referenced/modular-based instruction (CRMBI) as applied to training and educational efforts in business, industrial, and military settings. CRMBI is defined as an instructional delivery system (along with the concomitant curriculum design and instructional materials development implications) that…

The University of Texas at Tyler (UTT) has assumed the responsibility of developing and initiating a partnership organization between industry and education within the East Texas community. A communication network involving local, state, and national government, chambers of commerce, industry, business, and education will be the core of the…

Careful audience analysis should be a major focus of the rhetorical side of technical writing courses for university undergraduates. Student writers need to be taught to appreciate their readers' problems, interests, and motives. Most often, audience analysis is accomplished imaginatively--authors create mental images of their readers. Students…