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Download full textKansas State Board of Education, Topeka. – 1994
The Kansas State Board of Education awarded $10.25 million to local education agencies through the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990. A work group developed the System of Measures and Standards of Performance (SMSP). Programs for single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women were funded to…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance
Muir, Harry P.; Wischropp, Theodore W. – 1982
Intended for adult basic education (ABE) and general educational development (GED) instructors with at least one year of experience, this staff development training manual is designed for use in structured inservice training or as a guide or reference. Its eight chapters, written by practitioners throughout Kansas, cover some of the most important…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Career Development
Reese, Clara; Chenoweth, Roberta – 1982
This competency-based prevocational exploration curriculum is designed to provide occupational information and hands-on experiences pertaining to consumer and homemaking occupations to ninth- and tenth-grade students. The curriculum consists of 45 learning pacs, 43 of which cover one service occupation each. Information for each service occupation…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Career Exploration, Child Care Occupations
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1984
This volume consists of lists of proficiencies and performance indicators for use in designing and revising curricula dealing with essential living skills in consumer and homemaking education for the occupation of homemaking. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are behavioral objectives and evaluation criteria dealing with the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Child Development, Child Rearing
Wong, Shirley, Comp. – 1981
Designed for use in facilitating sex-fairness in vocational education, this volume documents over 600 resources in the following areas: resources of interest to all educators; administrative resources; instructional resources; counseling resources; outreach, recruitment, and placement resources; inservice/preservice and student workshop resources;…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Advisory Committees, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Involvement
Towns, Kathryn; And Others – 1980
These guidelines are designed to help public school system vocational educators establish programs and services for displaced homemakers within the framework of vocational technical school and community college programs. The main body of the guide consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the special needs of displaced…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Continuing Education, Cooperative Education
Coats, Maggie – 1999
In the United Kingdom, these two perspectives on lifelong learning sit uneasily together: emphasis on adults in employment and a focus on diversity and widening participation in adult education. A recent emphasis on accreditation with implications for funding has affected diversity and participation objectives because involving assessment,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Developed Nations
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1995
These Congressional hearings contain testimony pertaining to the future of job training in Ohio. Among the topics discussed are the following: the job training needs of selected special needs groups, including convicted felons on probation, dislocated workers, displaced homemakers, unemployed individuals, underskilled employees, disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Correctional Education, Disabilities
Brookhaven Coll., Farmers Branch, TX. – 1993
This guide contains information about academic support services available to single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women at community, junior, and technical colleges throughout Texas. Over three-fourths of the guide is devoted to program information in the form of brochures, flyers, and forms supplied by representatives of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Alcohol Education, Career Counseling, College Programs
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1983
During the 1980-81 school year, enrollments in vocational education programs totaled nearly 16.9 million and federal, state, and local capital outlays for vocational education increased by approximately $470 million from 1979-80 to an all-time high of $7.3 billion. Vocational education also served significantly increased numbers of handicapped,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annual Reports, Bilingual Education, Compliance (Legal)
Weston, Kathleen M. – 1982
This guide provides a systems approach to increasing the numbers of women in apprenticeships and skilled blue collar jobs. Its components form the Apprenticeship and Blue Collar (ABC) System. This system was developed from the experiences of hundreds of employment and training professionals and from several targeted outreach programs currently…
Descriptors: Adults, Affirmative Action, Apprenticeships, Blue Collar Occupations
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. Div. of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1982
This compendium provides information on 39 promising practices in vocational adult education selected during the 1981-82 school year. Criteria for selection are to meet an identified need for a specific problem or target population, measurability of indicators of success, possibility of adaptation by others, and practicality of resources required…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Career Counseling, Career Education
Tavares, Barbara, Ed. – 2002
This publication provides resources for linking vocational programs with five special populations. Sections 1-5 each focus on one special population and contain some or all of these resources: activities; recruitment; teacher tips; laws; staff development; funding streams; parent advice; instructional modifications; websites; community resources;…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Adult Education, Career Choice
Idaho State Div. of Professional-Technical Education, Boise. – 1999
Idaho's displaced homemaker program exists to reduce the incidence of poverty among the 59,498 displaced homemakers (according to the 1990 census) and 22,147 single mothers in the state. Of those who participated in Idaho's displaced homemaker programs in fiscal year 1999 (FY1999), 852 (33%) earned less than $5,000 annually. Yet, only 95 received…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Correctional Education, Displaced Homemakers
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
The Conference for Education in the South, which for 16 years has held its annual sessions at different places in the Southern States, is unique among educational conferences, in that its membership does not consist chiefly of teachers and school officers, but of farmers, professional men of all kinds, business men, and women of varied interests,…
Descriptors: Clubs, Females, Bachelors Degrees, Teacher Certification
