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Download full textCalifornia Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 2001
This report addresses the California Community Colleges Board of Governors' Initiative for Developing California's New Workforce. The report argues that many workforce training programs are still based on obsolete paradigms. Rather than offering the long-term skills and career development necessary to succeed in a high-performance workplace, these…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Miller, Cynthia; Bos, Johannes M.; Porter, Kristin E.; Tseng, Fannie M.; Abe, Yasuyo – MDRC, 2005
Succeeding in the labor market depends now more than ever on having the right education and training. This reality poses a particular challenge for out-of-school youth, who are no longer connected to institutions designed to provide them with training and connect them to good jobs. The Center for Employment Training (CET) in San Jose, California,…
Descriptors: Credentials, Out of School Youth, Labor Market, Job Training
Weber, Bruce A., Ed.; Duncan, Greg J., Ed.; Whitener, Leslie A., Ed. – 2002
The 16 chapters in this five-part book, each by different authors, trace the effects of welfare reform (mandated by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996), upon poor people in rural areas of the United States. The book begins with an introduction called "As the Dust Settles: Welfare Reform and Rural…
Descriptors: Adults, Compliance (Legal), Economic Impact, Employer Attitudes
