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The First Year of Accelerating Opportunity: Implementation Findings from the States and Colleges
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Anderson, Theresa; Eyster, Lauren; Lerman, Robert I.; Clymer, Carol; Conway, Maureen; Montes, Marcela – Urban Institute, 2014
Launched in 2011, the Accelerating Opportunity (AO) initiative aims to increase the ability of students with low basic skills to earn valued occupational credentials, obtain well-paying jobs, and sustain rewarding careers. AO encourages states to change the delivery of adult education for students interested in learning career skills by enrolling…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Adult Basic Education, Credentials
Industrial Perspectives of Work Place Basics and Training Delivery Services.
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Logan, Joyce; Byers, Charles – Journal of Studies in Technical Careers, 1991
Kentucky employers (249 of 800 surveyed) identified adaptability, teamwork, communication, and problem solving as entry-level and advancement skills. Over 50 percent did no preemployment testing. Responses indicated areas needing change: training focused on workplace basics, accessible training delivery, and preemployment assessment services. (SK)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Employer Attitudes, Employment Potential, Entry Workers
Taxes Affecting the Worker: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Rankin, Lila T. – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the 9th and 10th grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or common…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Handling Your Paycheck: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Craig, Arthur; And Others – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Budgeting, Career Development, Career Education
Self-Appraisal for Employment: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Hill, Jim; Craig, Arthur – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed expecially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
The Role of Work in Our Society: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Roundtree, Ray; Anthony, Kenneth – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Introduction: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Atkins, Oscar T. – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education
Occupational Safety: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Evans, Clarence; Wills, Richard – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education
Learning About Job Clusters: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Johnson, James L. – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
How to Keep a Job: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Scott, Ernestine; Love, Doris – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Personal Development: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Nordloh, Mary J. – 1973
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Getting a Job: Orientation to the World of Work.
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Atkins, Oscar T.; Delaney, Judith – 1973
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Vocational Education Single Parent/Displaced Homemaker Program Annual Report. July 1, 1989-June 30, 1990.
Women's and Family Programs Corp., Louisville, KY. – 1990
The Owensboro (Kentucky) Displaced Homemaker Program assists single parents/displaced homemakers in sustaining themselves and their families by enabling them to enter the workforce. Barriers of age, sex, lack of work experience, low self-esteem, low educational attainment, and little knowledge of the work environment affect their ability to enter…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Vocational Education, Annual Reports, Basic Skills
Adult Basic Education. The Kentucky Experience.
Moore, Lawrence H.; Jackson, Sharon – 1984
This manual is intended for use in training new and first-year adult basic education (ABE) teachers in Kentucky. Discussed in the introductory chapter are the roots of ABE in Kentucky, the basic goals and objectives of ABE, and the ways in which programs are established and operated locally. Next, the characteristics of adult students are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adult Students