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Download full textWeitekamp, Maurie; Kogan, Deborah – 1997
These matrices summarize the content of the certification/chartering requirements established by nine first-round and three second-round implementation states to deliver services in One-Stop Career Centers. Seven areas or dimensions of design/operations are compared. The narrative accompanying the matrices is divided into two sections--a matrix…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Centers, Certification, Comparative Analysis
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1997
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held a hearing to assess the success of Public Law 102-477, the Indian Employment, Training, and Related Services Demonstration Act of 1992. Specifically, the hearing looked at how well the Act is working in terms of enhancing program efficiency, reducing unemployment in Native communities, and improving…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Adult Education, American Indian Education, Employment Services
Women Work! The National Network for Women's Employment, Washington, DC. – 1995
A national survey examined customer satisfaction with displaced homemaker and single parent services across the United States. In April 1994, questionnaires were sent to approximately 1,360 local displaced homemaker and single parent programs. Approximately 235 programs (representing 47 states) choosing to participate (a 17.3% participation rate)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Daily Living Skills
Lurie, Irene; Hagen, Jan L. – 1993
During summer 1991, a study reviewed efforts of local agencies to implement the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Program. Three local sites in each of 10 states were examined. The field research showed that formal client flowcharts designed by the states and local sites were not yet fully operational and often did not describe actual…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Basic Skills, Coordination
Simpson, Frank; And Others – 1985
Intended for state team members developing state-wide collaborative agreements between education and rehabilitation agencies to aid in the transition of blind and visually handicapped students (ages 16-25) from school into the work force, the manual arose out of the February, 1985, Institute. The first chapter provides perspectives on transition…
Descriptors: Blindness, Career Guidance, Cooperative Planning, Education Work Relationship
Gilli, Angelo C., Sr. – 1982
Higher education's past, current, and future responses to occupational training and employment programs and services are considered as part of the Council on Education's Higher Education/Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program, which was supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. In addition, demographic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Education Work Relationship, Educational History
Johnson, Miriam; Sugarman, Marged – 1978
One of a series on Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program models, this monograph provides professionals employed in CETA programs with information on how job recruiting and searches take place to help them improve their job placement and development skills. The content is in four sections. The first section briefly covers the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Practices, Employment Programs
Mirengoff, William; And Others – 1980
A study examined the effect of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Reauthorization Act of 1978 on public service employment (PSE) programs. A field survey, conducted during June and July 1979 (two months after provisions of the amendment went into effect), assessed the early effects of the reauthorization in the following areas:…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential
Briggs, Norma L. – 1978
The participation of women in the skilled trades increased appreciably between 1960 and 1970; however, the rate of increase was not as large as could have been expected if women had entered the skilled trades at the same rate they entered the total civilian labor market. The gap between men's and women's median earnings was greater in 1970 than in…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Apprenticeships, Census Figures, Employed Women
Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1969
The overall purpose of this program was to develop and determine the feasibility and value of a coordinated interstate program of multi-agency resources for Mexican American migrant farm workers. Basic areas of concern leading to this goal were (1) the need for a program of employability and supportive services for migrant families who, because of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Data Analysis, Dental Health
Nilsen, Sigurd R. – 2003
A study assessed the formulas used to distribute funds to the states under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) 1998. It identified mismatches that might exist between the formulas and WIA's program goals and populations served and identified where the formulas are most vulnerable to wide fluctuations in funding levels from year to year. Issues…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2003
The General Accounting Office (GAO) surveyed officials in nine federal agencies regarding the following aspects of the employment and training programs they administered: funding levels; types and numbers of participants; services provided; and outcome measures. The 9 agencies were administering 44 programs providing a range of employment and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, American Indians, Budgets
Improving Job Opportunities for Low-Income People: The Hope of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
Beaulieu, Lionel J. – SRDC Information Brief: A Special Series on Welfare Reform in the South, 1999
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) makes it possible to build human capital resources by providing employment services and training to youth and adult dislocated workers. Such services are particularly needed in the rural South, where those affected by welfare reform have few job skills or educational credentials. WIA calls for the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship
Gross, Robert C. – 2000
This paper contains a transcript of the testimony of Robert C. Gross, representing state employment services program and unemployment compensation agencies, before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources and Education and the Workforce. According to the testimony, the publicly funded work force system has…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Career Information Systems, Delivery Systems
Auspos, Patricia; Sherwood, Kay E. – 1992
This paper on assessment in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Program for welfare recipients is intended to help administrators of JOBS programs weigh the possible benefits and drawbacks of the assessment choices they must make. Chapter 1 explains why assessment matters to JOBS administrators. Chapter 2 suggests a conceptual framework…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Employment Potential
