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de Alva, Jorge Klor; Schneider, Mark – American Enterprise Institute, 2018
Apprenticeships are often considered the "gold standard" of workforce education. They are formal training programs during which successful applicants are paid while being trained on the job by experienced workers or mentors. Acquiring new skills in the workplace is accompanied by related training, typically provided by an educational…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Barriers, College Role
Sirianni, Carmen – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Maryland, 2005
The burgeoning literature on youth civic engagement points to many different ways in which youth can contribute to the democratic life of communities, institutions, and the larger polity: voting, advocacy, service learning, community-university partnerships, and youth organizing, to name just a few. Hampton, however, represents a case where the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, City Government, Citizenship Responsibility, Citizen Participation