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Download full textAdvance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2016
Work-based learning is an educational strategy that offers students an opportunity to reinforce and deepen their classroom learning, explore future career fields and demonstrate their skills in an authentic setting. Managing work-based learning requires layers of coordination, which is typically done by an individual or organizational…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Workplace Learning, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships
Direct linkCrowe, Meagan – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2019
This report examines how technology and automation are changing the job market -- and what states can do to prepare adults for the new workplace. It analyzes shifts from low- to middle-skills jobs, details current education levels, and offers recommendations for retooling adult education programs.
Descriptors: Information Technology, Automation, Labor Market, Job Skills
Peer reviewedWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2008
"JOBSTART" is an alternative education and training program designed to improve the economic prospects of young, disadvantaged high school dropouts by increasing educational attainment and developing occupational skills. The program has four main components: (1) basic academic skills instruction with a focus on GED (General Educational…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Job Training, Educational Development, Intervention
Duke, Amy-Ellen; Martinson, Karin; Strawn, Julie – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2006
This report examines one promising approach: state and local partnerships with business and industry to train low-wage workers and help them advance. For this analysis, the authors examined partnerships that: (1) Involve an investment of public funds and are managed by a public sector institution (business and industry also typically invest in…
Descriptors: Job Training, Labor Force Development, Wages, Government Role
Georgia State Dept. of Labor, Atlanta. – 1991
A study in Georgia evaluated the pre-program to post-program changes in employment, earnings, and welfare dependency for the 6,693 Title II-A adults that occurred between application and participant follow-up 13 weeks after leaving the state's Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program during the 1989-90 program year. Findings revealed…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training
Georgia State Univ., Atlanta. – 1985
This handbook is intended as a management resource for postsecondary and adult vocational education programs. Its uses include assessment of the effectiveness of current programs; identification of the need for new or expanded programs; development of an action plan for initiation, improvement, expansion, or termination of programs; and the…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Budgets, Educational Planning, Job Training
Moore, Kristin A.; And Others – 1995
To learn more about how welfare reform affects children, a child-focused study was conducted as part of the larger Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) evaluation. This study assess the impacts of mothers' mandatory participation in welfare-to-work programs on outcomes for children using a sample of 790 participants. It provides an…
Descriptors: Day Care, Family Characteristics, Job Training, Mothers
Gibson, G. Ruth – 1983
This study was designed to investigate the effect of participation in the first-year Coordinated Vocational Academic Education Program (CVAE) and the effect of participation in work experience on the knowledge of basic employment skills and work attitudes of disadvantaged youth in selected Georgia high schools. The study compared the scores on the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This evaluation of programs conducted in fiscal 1978 under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) consists of an overall picture of the 1978 YEDPA program experience and case studies of programs in 12 states. Findings and recommendations are presented concerning the implementation of YEDPA programs by Comprehensive Employment…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Awareness, Career Education, Case Studies
