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Download full textFITZSIMMONS, JOHN J.; AND OTHERS – 1966
A FIVE-MEMBER CONSULTANT TEAM, DURING THE SUMMER OF 1966, DEVELOPED A PROGRAM FOR OUT-OF-SCHOOL YOUTH WHICH WOULD RELATE WORK AND STUDY AND PROVIDE ON-THE-JOB TRAINING WITH THE ULTIMATE GOALS OF PLACING PARTICIPANTS IN SUITABLE VOCATIONS AND ASSISTING THEIR RETURN TO FORMAL EDUCATION LEADING TO A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA. THIS PROPOSAL OUTLINES PROGRAM…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Arithmetic, Career Counseling, Curriculum Development
Ewert, D. Merrill – 1980
Education has long been a development priority in Africa. The failure and limitations of formal education have led to the emergence of nonformal alternatives of various types. They include extension education, training programs, multipurpose educational programs (for middle-level professionals), cooperative self-help programs (community…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Community Development, Community Involvement
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
An evaluation was made of the classroom and on-the-job training programs administered locally under Title I of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in six states (California, Massachusetts, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, and Wisconsin). Based on samples of over 3,000 trainees during fiscal year 1976, it was found that job placement…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Problems, Career Guidance, Dropout Rate
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1978
Thirteen papers presented at a conference on employment statistics and youth are contained in this report. Reviewed are the problems of gathering, interpreting, and applying employment and unemployment data relating to youth. The titles of the papers are as follow: "Counting Youth: A Comparison of Youth Labor Force Statistics in the Current…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Economic Factors
Christopherson, Victor A.; Dingle, Steven F. – 1979
Caught between the Anglo and Navajo worlds, the Navajo youth of Arizona are at home in neither. Material rewards beckon from the Anglo world, but high schools have not provided the educational background to enable the youth to secure those rewards. Instead the schools have merely created in the students a discontent with traditional Reservation…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Cultural Background
Middle Cities Education Association, MI. – 1979
This report presents findings of surveys to determine the effects of the 1976 Vocational Education Amendments on the required coordination between the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and postsecondary vocational education at the federal, state, and local levels. An introduction is followed by a discussion (chapter 2) of results of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges
WIRTZ, W. WILLARD – 1966
THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF 1965, THE PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED, AND THE NEW DIRECTIONS THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT (MDTA) PROGRAMS ARE TAKING TO MEET THE MANPOWER CHALLENGES THAT LIE AHEAD ARE THE SUBSTANCES OF THIS REPORT. CONTENTS INCLUDE (1) PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS, (2) EXAMPLES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF EXPERIMENTAL AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS,…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Correctional Institutions, Demonstration Programs
Gragert, H.T. – 1962
An experimental vocational rehabilitation program for the mentally retarded (mean IQ=65.8, mean level of academic achievement=3rd grade) was conducted by Goodwill Industries from December 1958 to November 1962. Of 371 clients who were evaluated for occupational, academic, and vocational abilities, 337 completed the full diagnostic phase of the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administration, Attitudes, Citizenship
White, Arthur – 1967
Families that participate in CAP programs express keen desires to make more money, to get a better education for their children, to keep their children out of trouble, to make the available money go farther, to get more training and better jobs, to get better medical care, and to have more attractive homes. This is especially true of the large…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Attitudes, Blacks
Lawson, William H. – 1976
The study reviewed the application of General Education Development (GED) and Specific Vocational Preparation (SVP) data (as categorized by the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles"--DOT) to educational institutions, manpower agencies, and private foundations in curriculum development, area planning, management information systems, and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Career Planning, Curriculum Development
Selgas, James W. – 1977
In order to ascertain the educational needs of Central Pennsylvania residents, samples of three populations were surveyed: high school students, the adult population, and employers. A stratified random sample of approximately 530 public high school students in each of grades 10, 11, and 12, the entire enrollment of two Area Vocational Technical…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adult Education, Adults, Community Colleges
Patten, W. George – 1977
Adult basic education (ABE) programs are not adequate to prepare the unemployed and undereducated to gain entry into the labor market and conceivably higher education. Some indications of the scope of the problem can be seen in a recent Division of Adult Education, U.S. Office of Education, report which indicated that more than fifty-one million…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Ancillary Services, Career Counseling
Burlington County Coll., Pemberton, NJ. – 1978
The demand for paraprofessionals trained to work in the special education of the handicapped is rapidly increasing, especially due to the impact of Public Law 94-192 which requires that individualized educational programs be provided for handicapped children. To help meet this need, a model program called PEG is being developed in New Jersey. Its…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Draper, James A.; Alden, Harold – 1978
A study to examine policies governing educational assistance plans for hourly and salaried employees in selected nongovernmental organizations in Ontario is reviewed. In the first of five chapters, educational assistance is defined as tuition aid and paid/unpaid educational leave plans to assist employees in pursuing education and training through…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Collective Bargaining, Contracts
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1978
Focusing on office machine and computer occupations, this document is one in a series of forty-one reprints from the Occupational Outlook Handbook providing current information and employment projections for individual occupations and industries through 1985. The specific occupations covered in this document include business machine repairers,…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Data Processing Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
