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Buchanan, E. T., III; Brothers, Constance F. – 1976
A project was conducted to provide women, minority, veteran, and handicapped college students with a structured cooperative education work experience which would enhance career selection and mobility and provide supervised employment in fields related to the students' interests and academic majors while supplying the employers with trained…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Cooperative Education
Pendleton, John – 1977
The study guide is one of several supplementary materials for a 15-week newspaper course about popular culture in the United States. Course objectives are to help students understand the pervasiveness of popular culture in American society, its historical development, the business aspects of the popular culture industry, the effects of mass media…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Broadcast Industry, Communications, Concept Teaching
Naylor, Michele – 2002
The characteristics of teacher educators in career and technical education (CTE) were examined in a survey of 601 CTE teacher educators. According to 359 responses (response rate, 60%), the average CTE teacher educator is a 50-year-old, white, male, tenured full-time professor with 16 years of experience in higher education. The study established…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems, Educational Improvement, Educational Practices
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Rose, Stephen J. – 1998
A study tracing the United States economy over the last 40 years reports the skills needed in the changing economy around the turn of the 21st century. Data sources were the March Annual Demographic files of the Current Population Survey for 1970, 1980, 1990, and 1996, and the Public Microdata Sample of the 1960 Census. The study notes the rise of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Business Administration, Clerical Occupations, College Graduates
Riggins, Stephen Harold, Ed. – 1997
A collection of essays on "the other" in discourse includes: "The Rhetoric of Othering" (Stephen Harold Riggins); "Political Discourse and Racism: Describing Others in Western Parliaments" (Teun A. van Dijk); "'Das Ausland' and Anti-Semitic Discourse: The Discursive Construction of the Other" (Ruth Wodak);…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Advertising, Afrocentrism, Anti Semitism
National Center for Education Statistics Bulletin, 1982
Men dominated the teaching positions in five of nine vocational program areas during 1979-80: industrial-arts (96.6 percent of full time positions), agriculture (93.5 percent), technical (92.8 percent), trade and industrial (91.4 percent), and distribution (69.5 percent) according to a survey of 282,292 full time instructional staff analyzed…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, American Indians, Asian Americans
Feler, Raquel W.; Taylor, William T. – 1978
The student profile consists of numerical data with some analysis, derived from an institution-wide study of student characteristics that may bear upon planning processes, especially for racial and ethnic groups. The data include demographic characteristics (race, sex, age, geographic origin, and resident status), maturational characteristics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Age, College Applicants
Benson, Charles S.; Hoachlander, E. Gareth – 1981
The 1976 Vocational Education Act set up procedures governing the flow of funds from the federal government to the states and from the states to the localities; and it establishes priorities for distribution of funds. The Act also demands that money be spent only on the programs or activites mentioned in the Act and that certain minimum…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Moore, Kathryn M.; Wollitzer, Peter A. – 1979
A bibliography covering the period 1970 to 1979 provides information on research on academic women reported in journals and published and unpublished report literature. The first chapter is an overview of the research and methodological notes. The following chapters provide citations and annotations for literature in these areas: historical and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Organization, Administrator Characteristics, Administrators
Mojab, Shahrzad; McDonald, Susan – 2001
A comparative study of the impact of violence on immigrant women's learning was conducted among immigrant women of two communities in the Toronto area: the Spanish-speaking community and the Kurds. The two authors of the study each worked with one of the communities in which they had knowledge of the language. An in-depth, non-structured,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Anxiety, Battered Women
Genshaft, Judy L., Ed.; And Others – 1995
This collection considers the personal and educational needs of the student who is gifted, with emphasis on the roles of support staff. It covers developmental perspectives; assessment, identification, and evaluation issues; educational services; personal, interpersonal, and cultural issues; intervention strategies; and gifted education issues.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Advocacy
Mizer, Robert; And Others – 1990
This document contains 29 programs and/or material listings that were nominated by at least three persons and for which there was evidence of the quality of the program or materials. Reviewers looked for positive evaluation data on the impact of the materials on students, or other information that assessed the quality of the program or materials,…
Descriptors: Algebra, Arithmetic, Audiovisual Aids, College Mathematics
Helgeson, Stanley L.; And Others – 1990
This document contains 36 programs and/or material listings that were nominated by at least three persons and for which there was evidence of the quality of the program or materials. Reviewers looked for positive evaluation data on the impact of the materials on students, or other information that assessed the quality of the program or materials,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Biology, Chemistry, College Science
Shulman, Carol Herrnstadt, Ed. – 1984
The 31 papers in this yearbook are organized in five sections: I. Changes in the Labor Force, which includes: "Labor Market Needs to the Year 2000" (Morgan V. Lewis) and "Occupational Adaptability and Transferable Skills: Preparing Today's Adults for Tomorrow's Careers" (Frank C. Pratzner and William L. Ashley); II. Educating Adult Students, which…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Style
Weston, Kathleen M. – 1982
This guide provides a systems approach to increasing the numbers of women in apprenticeships and skilled blue collar jobs. Its components form the Apprenticeship and Blue Collar (ABC) System. This system was developed from the experiences of hundreds of employment and training professionals and from several targeted outreach programs currently…
Descriptors: Adults, Affirmative Action, Apprenticeships, Blue Collar Occupations
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