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Paul, Sheilah M. – International Journal of Special Education, 2011
In most developed countries, research studies that investigate the effects of special education on student outcomes have become conventional practice. However, in developing countries such as the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, there are no studies about the progress and outcomes of students and youths with disabilities. This…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Job Training
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Emad, Gholamreza; Roth, Wolff Michael – Education & Training, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the contradictions in the current maritime education and training system (MET), which is based on competency-based education, training and assessment, and to theorize the failure to make the training useful. Design/methodology/approach: A case study of education and training in the international…
Descriptors: Marine Education, Competency Based Education, Program Effectiveness, Competence
Gordon, Claudette Veronica – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) placed a lifetime capitation of five years on welfare benefits. This Bill consolidated welfare and employment programs into the block grant known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The benefit package allows operation of programs in accordance with…
Descriptors: Home Health Aides, Employment Programs, Phenomenology, Block Grants
National Commission on Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2008
The National Commission on Adult Literacy proposes creating a new Adult Education and Workforce Skills System with the capacity to effectively serve 20 million adults annually by the year 2020. The primary mission of this new System will be to move out-of-school adults to readiness for postsecondary education and job training and enable their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Job Training, Labor, Adult Literacy
National Commission on Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2008
America's workforce is facing an education and skills crisis. Among the 30 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States is the only one in which younger adults are less educated than the previous generation. "Unless we invest now to educate and train our workforce, America risks its economic…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Adult Education, Job Training, Adult Literacy
Ngwudike, Benjamin C. – Online Submission, 2008
The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL): Performance of African Americans in a National Context Sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) the 2003 NAAL was America's most comprehensive assessment of adult literacy since the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS). NAAL was a nationally representative…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Inferences, Prose, African Americans
Lamos, Erin; Simon, Martin; Waits, Mary Jo – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2010
This report presents a case study of the Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC), which brings together auto manufacturers and community colleges across 12 states to identify and implement wide-ranging improvements in technical education for automotive manufacturing workers. A "Big Collaboration"--AMTEC…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Global Approach, Technical Education, Labor Force Development
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Ayers, David Franklin; Carlone, David – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2007
The purpose of conducting this study was to understand how neoliberal discourses manifest within the local context of a short-term, job-training program offered at a two-year college in the USA. Ethnographic data were collected at the local site through interviews, observations and document analysis. We then situated these data within a global…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Foreign Policy, Ethnography, Role of Education
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Eberts, Randall W. – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2009
This paper examines labor market conditions and public employment policies in the United States during what some are calling the Great Recession. We document the dramatic labor market changes that rapidly unfolded when the rate of gross domestic product growth turned negative, from the end of 2007 through early 2009. The paper reviews the…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Financial Problems, Economic Factors, Human Capital
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Winn, Stephen; Hay, Ian – Disability & Society, 2009
Australian research has demonstrated that students with a disability are more likely to remain out of the full-time workforce. These research findings have been the catalyst for a call for a comprehensive career development and transition planning approach for all students with disabilities in schools as well as for employers to rethink the role…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Cost Effectiveness, Secondary School Students, Career Development
Prophet, Wallace W. – 1977
An examination of Army instructional research and training programs in three specific areas may suggest implications for civilian instruction: (1) Performance-based instructional systems, (2) education and training for lower aptitude personnel, and (3) uses of instructional technology. The performance-based instructional system is based on…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Armed Forces, Competency Based Education, Educational Technology
Richardson, Ann – 1977
The voucher training program for Work Incentive Program (WIN) clients described within this interim report is a system for providing occupational training to clients through entitlements rather than direct service (client and trainer are in a direct relationship facilitated by the agency). The basic program objective, discussed in the…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Agency Role, Educational Vouchers, Employers
Hansen, Gary B.; Bentley, Marion T. – 1976
This first volume of a two-volume final report contains description and findings of a 3-year research and demonstration project in which a small human resource diagnostic and consulting service was established at a State land-grant institution (Utah State University) to provide a broadly based technical assistance program directed toward improving…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Delivery Systems, Employers, Job Training
Partee, Glenda L.; Halperin, Samuel – American Youth Policy Forum, 2006
At the international Youth Employment Summit, September 7-11, 2002, representatives from 140 countries gathered in Alexandria, Egypt to share knowledge and experience and to advance the cause of better preparation of youth for entry into, and success in, their respective national economies. At the Summit, for the benefit of those with little…
Descriptors: Job Training, Familiarity, Employment Programs, Out of School Youth
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Kutner, Mark; Greenberg, Elizabeth; Jin, Ying; Boyle, Bridget; Hsu, Yung-chen; Dunleavy, Eric – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) assessed the English literacy skills of a nationally representative sample of more than 19,000 U.S. adults (age 16 and older) residing in households and prisons. NAAL is the first national assessment of adult literacy since the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey. Three types of literacy were…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Job Training, Employment Level, Family Literacy
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