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Download full textRehabilitation Research Foundation, Elmore, AL. Draper Correctional Center. – 1965
MATERIALS RELATING TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE CENTER'S VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR YOUNG INMATES ARE PRESENTED TO SHOW A DEVELOPMENTAL PICTURE OF THE PROGRAM. OF 650 INMATES, 372 APPLIED FOR TRAINING, 50-60 WERE REFERRED TO ACADEMIC SCHOOL, 120 WERE SERVED, 109 GRADUATED, 50 WERE EMPLOYED, 59 WERE AWAITING PAROLE, AND 120 WERE AWAITING…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Demonstration Programs, Experimental Programs, Material Development
Burt, Samuel M.; Striner, Herbert E. – 1968
In recent years there has been a significant increase in the efforts of private industry to employ and train the hard-core unemployed youth and adults of this nation. The time has come, however, for a change in the continuing pattern of employers engaging in experimental and demonstration projects, each learning anew what others have learned about…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employer Attitudes, Government Employees, Government Role
Flicker, Bernard – 1969
The objectives of this High School Redirection Project were to redirect potential dropouts to continue full-time education and training with an educational-vocational plan, to provide high school dropouts with job skills that will enable them to enter the labor market on the highest possible level while continuing to upgrade their skills on a…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts, Group Counseling, High School Students
WICKLAND, ROGER F. – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS SURVEY WAS TO EVALUATE THE "IMPACT" MADE ON COMMUNITY AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS AT THE LOCAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS BY THE EXPERIMENTAL AND DEMONSTRATION (E AND D) YOUTH PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE OFFICE OF MANPOWER POLICY, EVALUATION, AND RESEARCH (OMPER). THE PROJECTS WERE DIRECTED TOWARD DEVELOPING AND DEMONSTRATING NEW…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Rosen, Sumner M. – 1968
Late in 1965, District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees explored with the Department of Labor the possibility of developing a program to upgrade nurses' aides to Licensed Practical Nurse. The program was proposed under Title I of the Manpower Development and Training Act and included provision for…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Development, Collective Bargaining, Federal Programs
Reesman, Cilla J.; And Others – 1975
This report deals with the operations reports of 29 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) Experimental and Demonstration (E and D) projects concerning the geographic relocation of workers under the MDTA's provisions and analyzes both the demonstration findings dealing with program feasibility, and the available empirical research concerning…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Development, Economic Research
FOURTUNE, ALEXANDER A.; SEEFER, RICHARD G. – 1966
DESPITE RECORD PEAKS IN EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTION, THE ECONOMY IS FAILING TO UTILIZE FULLY THE POTENTIAL OF ITS MANPOWER RESOURCES AS COMPARED TO THE 1950'S. IN 1965, THE EMPLOYMENT OF MEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 25 AND 64 WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT 725,000 HIGHER IF THEY HAD WORKED AT THE RATE WHICH EXISTED FOR WHITE MEN IN 1951-53. THE GAP BETWEEN THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Age, Employment Patterns
MCKEE, JOHN M.; SEAY, DONNA M. – 1965
INMATES WERE EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS IN A PROJECT FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND PLACEMENT. OF THE 46 WHO COMPLETED TRAINING IN MAY, 35 WERE PAROLED AND EMPLOYED, AND 11 WERE AWAITING PAROLE CONFIRMATIONS. A SECOND GROUP WERE ENROLLED. TO OVERCOME SOME STUDENT WEAKNESSES, A REMEDIAL NIGHT SCHOOL CLASS WAS INITIATED. THIS PROBLEM COULD BE ELIMINATED BY…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Demonstration Programs, Experimental Programs, Material Development
Horowitz, Morris; And Others – 1968
This section of the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Winter Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association consists of three papers on aspects of manpower education. A Boston study on training of tool and die makers sought to ascertain which of several identifiable training paths was most productive in terms of worker performance. It found…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
Olympus Research Corp., Salt Lake City, UT. – 1972
The major purposes of this evaluation were to: (1) assess the effectiveness of the Individual Referral (IR) program in providing training in broadening occupational choices and in making institutional training available to enrollees in areas where class-size projects are not feasible; (2) develop comparable data on such items as trainee…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Guidance Programs, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Cohen, Malcolm S. – J Hum Resources, 1969
Descriptors: Community Action, Economic Research, Employment Level, Employment Programs
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Research and Development. – 1973
The Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) of 1962 established a "small" grants program for the support of dissertation research of candidates for the Ph.D. degree whose topics are related to manpower. The report presents the budget details of the awards in 1972; total grant proposals submitted; the geographical distribution of…
Descriptors: Awards, Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Programs, Educational Finance
Division of Manpower Development and Training. , BAVT. – 1972
The tenth annual report on institutional training under the Manpower Development and Training Act is organized as follows: (1) MDTA institutional training highlights: 1962-71; (2) the program in profile--training opportunities, characteristics of institutional trainees, occupations of training, institutional training programs, state programs,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Annual Reports, Career Opportunities, Job Training
Jacobson, Louis S. – 1973
Research using Social Security data to measure the effects of government manpower training programs on the earnings of participants is discussed. Previous studies employed a longitudinal set of Social Security summary earnings records of over 50,000 individuals who participated in Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) institutional training…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Employment Patterns, Federal Programs
Stromsdorfer, Ernst W. – 1972
The methodology to perform benefit-cost studies exists, but there is much ambiguity concerning the implications of such studies as a result of using faulty methodology. For example, control groups are a necessity, as are adequate sampling procedures and adjustment for non-response bias and self-selection bias, and all studies do not employ this…
Descriptors: Bias, Community Benefits, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Programs
