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Mortrude, Judy; Cielinski, Anna – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2017
In January 2016, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) commenced an 18-month project to study the implementation of California's Adult Education Block Grant (AEBG) initiative. AEBG's purpose is "to improve coordination and better serve the needs of adult learners within each region." CLASP set out to foster greater understanding…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Block Grants, Educational Finance, Program Implementation
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2015
This report summarizes respondent-identified facilitators and barriers to career pathways development and implementation as well as promising practices. In addition, respondent recommendations for what federal, state, tribal, and local agencies can do to support the successful development of career pathways systems are highlighted. The report…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Influences, Barriers, Diversity
Shumer, Rob; Digby, Cynthia – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2011
The purpose of this investigation is to tell the story of how six states are developing Programs of Study (POS) as mandated by the Perkins IV federal legislation. The authors' effort focuses on how states' technical assistance systems evolved and what successes and challenges existed for states developing POS. There was no intent to compare one…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Federal Legislation, Program Validation, Vocational Education
Phillips, J. Stephen – 1989
A study ascertained training, retraining, consulting, and technical support needs of small manufacturing companies in Ohio. Data were obtained from nine service areas of Ohio's two-year educational institutions to determine what human, technical, and physical assets campuses should make available. A survey instrument was designed to provide…
Descriptors: Consultants, Job Training, Management Development, Manufacturing Industry
Satterlee, Brian – 1996
The Florida Association of Voluntary Agencies for Caribbean Action (FAVA/CA) was formed to provide on-site, overseas technical assistance and training in health, agriculture, social services, and education. This paper reports on the beginnings of an evaluation of the New Life Organization (NEWLO), a vocational training institute in Grenada, West…
Descriptors: Accountability, Attitude Change, Daily Living Skills, Disadvantaged Youth
Peace Corps, 2004
"Community Content-Based Instruction" grew out of several development initiatives and field needs. It began to take shape in a Gender and Public Health Education for Teachers Workshop and an In-Service Education Workshop for Volunteers and their counterparts, in the spring of 1996 in Eritrea. Since that time, the concept has been further…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Workshops, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods