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Download full textRull, Marvin H.; Moore, Richard O. – 1968
One phase of the curriculum demonstration program sponsored jointly by the Quincy Public Schools and Southern Illinois University is the Service Station Training School described within this report. The Service Station Training School was one of several sheltered work stations which were developed to provide preemployment experiences and training…
Descriptors: Career Development, Control Groups, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention
Hunter, David E. – 1967
A 1967 study of the Dixwell Legal Rights Association, New Haven, Connecticut, assessed the goals of the DLRA (training of legal service agency personnel and of nonprofessional neighborhood workers, legal rights education of the poor, social change) and their realization. DLRA services to clients were highly respected. Its militancy and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Disadvantaged, Ghettos, Indigenous Personnel
Fraenkel, William A.
Written for employers, personnel directors, vocational rehabilitation personnel, placement specialists, and all others involved in helping the mentally handicapped find their rightful place in the world of work, these guidelines discuss significant factors to consider when employing or seeking employment for the mentally handicapped. These factors…
Descriptors: Employers, Employment Interviews, Employment Opportunities, Employment Practices
Mook, B. T.; Oxenham, J. C. P. – 1975
This publication describes plans for one of three subsidiary studies related to a larger research program concerned with the interrelationship of educational qualifications and employment. The purpose of the particular study described here is to trace how educated young people in Kenya and Sri Lanka who cannot immediately gain employment change…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Level
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1974
The current role of the Department of Labor's Manpower Administration as determined by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA) is described. CETA shifts the responsibility for training and job placement services from the Federal government to States, cities, and counties which operate their own programs using funds provided by…
Descriptors: Community Programs, County Programs, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Richardson, Ann; Dunning, Bruce B. – 1975
This study was undertaken in response to expressions of concern about the apparent high dropout and low placement rates for young under-22 Work Incentive Program (WIN) participants. The analysis is based on interviews with 518 young people in 13 cities across the United States who were in the program at some time between July 1971 and the spring…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Rate, Employee Attitudes, Employment Patterns
Cleveland, Roma, Comp.
The job placement guide, designed to help individuals (high school or college students or graduates) find suitable employment, is presented in five sections. Each section contains items such as checklists, suggestions, and inventories which a student can use independently to improve his chances of finding a satisfactory job. The first section…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Career Guidance, Check Lists, Employment Interviews
Kalleberg, Arne L.; Sorensen, Aage B. – 1974
In an industrial society, jobs and men can be conceived of as separate entities that are brought together through a matching process. In this paper the "goodness-of-fit" between the individual and the job is taken as problematic and is used as an explanatory concept for both the reactions of individuals to their jobs (job satisfaction, stress,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Economic Factors, Employment, Individual Needs
Foster, June C.; Kapisovsky, Peggy – 1975
Intended for Massachusetts community college personnel, the document presents suggestions and consideration for providing services to handicapped students. Based on questionnaires from approximately 200 key college personnel, the guide emphasizes eight issues (topics are in parentheses): the student population to be served (blind,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Architectural Barriers, Community Colleges, Counseling
McCreary, Phyllis Groom; McCreary, John M. – 1975
The document was written for those who are planning new manpower services for offenders and ex-offenders or who are administering or employed in various institutional or community-based programs that prepare them to find jobs and acquire skills to raise their income. Part 1 establishes a framework for the guidelines presented in the rest of the…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Correctional Rehabilitation, Criminals, Employment Interviews
Montgomery, Travis – 1974
The problem studied was to determine student's need for more school job-placement services, job information services, follow-up services, and career occupational information in 10 cooperating high schools in a three-county program designed to prepare high school seniors and early school leavers to make a positive transition from high school to…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Career Counseling, Counseling Services, Employment
Greenleigh Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1968
This followup study of the field test and evaluation of selected adult basic education systems was begun in July 1966 and carried out in California, New Jersey, and New York, where the earlier study had been held. The study focused on the impact which the field test and other education and/or training programs had on the participants in terms of…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation
Sanders, James Carroll – 1968
This study was undertaken to assess the adult education and community service responsibility of Colby Community Junior College, Kansas. A survey was made of pertinent literature, followed by questionnaire surveys of 64 similar public junior colleges in Kansas and five nearby states and of 200 adults residing in the community. The proposed program…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Services, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Facilities
Sommerfeld, Donald Alfred – 1969
A followup study was made of 200 graduates (50 from each program) of different kinds of job training in Detroit, Michigan, during 1968 through the Northern Systems Company Training Center, the McNamara Skills Center, the Concentrated Employment Program Orientation and Operation Mainstream (CEPO-Mainstream), and the Direct On-the-job Training…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1969
Evaluations have been made of 55 early (1963-66) experimental and demonstration projects conducted in 18 states and the District of Columbia under the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 to reach and serve youth for whom the conventional approaches, techniques, and personnel seemed inadequate. Experiences and results of the projects are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Ancillary Services, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth
