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Missouri Univ., Columbia. Coll. of Education. – 1987
This module is designed to help educators understand the roles and responsibilities of counselors in relation to special needs students. The guide includes a list of definitions and uses a question-and-answer format to provide information on the provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Act regarding counseling activities; the role of a special needs…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Compliance (Legal), Counselor Certification, Counselor Role
Missouri Univ., Columbia. Coll. of Education. – 1986
This module provides information on identification and characteristics of disadvantaged students and the requirements of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. The guide includes a list of definitions and uses a question-and-answer format to define disadvantaged students (academically and economically disadvantaged, limited English…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Resources
Waltz, Freddie C.; Beeman, Carl E. – 1984
To address the issues of student recruitment and retention in Florida, a three-year research study was conducted. The three phases of the study sought the following: (1) to describe barriers to recruitment and retention of disadvantaged, unemployed, underemployed, out-of-school youth as perceived by students, teachers, counselors, and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Administrator Attitudes, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Download full textCunningham, Donna; And Others – 1985
A third-party evaluation of the Texas coordinated vocational-academic education (CVAE) program was conducted in 1984-85 to determine the effectiveness of CVAE as a vocational program for meeting the needs of secondary students who are unsuccessful in traditional academic programs. A project advisory committee was established, a review of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Villegas, Jose J.; Fischer, Shelley M. – 1988
This program, in its fifth year of operation, was federally funded under the Refugee Act on a per-capita formula based on the number of New York City students identified as refugees using federal criteria. Because the total sum allocated was too limited to support instruction, funds were used to develop a vocational English as a second language…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Aid
Illinois State Council on Vocational Education, Springfield. – 1987
As required by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984, the Illinois Council on Vocational Education conducted its first biennial study of the types and amounts of cooperation between vocational education (VE) and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs in the state. Data were collected from high schools, area vocational centers,…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Programs, Coordination
1979
Included in this document are the proceedings from a conference on Youth Employment held September 26-27, 1979, in Baltimore, Maryland. This report is divided into the following four sections: conference agenda; conference papers; symposia outlines of conference sessions; and selected youth statistics. The following conference papers comprise the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Conference Proceedings, Disadvantaged Youth
Holmes, Dennis H. – 1979
High attrition rate and under representation of educationally disadvantaged youth in vocational education programs were the policy issues behind the development and piloting of the Consolidated Services Demonstration Project in seven California high schools. The three-year project sought to integrate the separated programs for compensatory,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Basic Skills, Career Education
HERMAN, MELVIN; SADOFSKY, STANLEY – 1967
OF THE 601 YOUTHS WHOSE CHARACTERISTICS WERE STUDIED IN PHASE I (VT 004 090), 377 WERE NOT PLACED IN JOBS OR TRAINING WITHIN THREE MONTHS AFTER THEIR INITIAL INTERVIEW AT THE JOB CENTERS. OF THESE, 201 WERE INTERVIEWED DURING PHASE II TO DETERMINE THE TRAITS WHICH DISTINGUISHED THEM FROM OTHERS WHO HAD BEEN PLACED BY THE CENTERS, AND THE FACTORS…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Services, Federal Programs
Illinois State Board of Vocational Education and Rehabilitation, Springfield. – 1966
A 3-YEAR COOPERATIVE SUPERVISED JOB TRAINING PROGRAM WAS INITIATED TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF SUPERVISED JOB TRAINING ON LOW ACADEMIC ACHIEVERS AND PERSONS WHO HAD DEFINITE NEEDS FOR VOCATIONAL PREPAREDNESS IMMEDIATELY UPON LEAVING SCHOOL. FOUR SCHOOLS FROM THREE SCHOOL DISTRICTS PARTICIPATED IN THE PILOT PROGRAMS -- ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOL, MAINE…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts, High Schools, Low Achievement
LAW, GORDON F., ED. – 1967
TWELVE RESEARCH REVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE PERTAIN TO YOUTH WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, ONE OF THE NINE MAJOR AREAS OF CONCERN IDENTIFIED BY THE PANEL OF CONSULTANTS ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. THEY ARE ORGANIZED UNDER THE TOPICS--(1) OCCUPATIONALLY ORIENTED PROGRAMS WHICH INCLUDES IDENTIFICATION OF WORK CONCEPTS, (2) COOPERATIVE SCHOOL AND WORK PROGRAMS, WHICH…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Career Guidance, Cooperative Education, Curriculum
Committee on Administration of Training Programs, Washington, DC. – 1968
The Committee studied the administration of training under federal programs including Manpower Development and Training, Economic Opportunity, Adult Basic Education, Vocational Education, Work-Study Program, Social Security, Vocational Rehabilitation, and National Apprenticeship Training Acts, as well as selected administratively established…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Bureau of Employment Security (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1966
FIVE ARTICLES DESCRIBE THE FINDINGS OF A PROJECT DESIGNED TO EVALUATE AND PREPARE SCHOOL DROPOUTS FOR TRAINING OR JOBS. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE PROVIDED AN INITIAL INTAKE INTERVIEW TO EVALUATE EACH OF THE 450 SELECTED YOUTHS, ALL LIVING IN NORTH PHILADELPHIA. IN SPITE OF THIS, HALF OF THE YOUTH REJECTED THE OFFER TO ENTER…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Career Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth
Fuller, Gerald R.; Phipps, Lloyd J. – 1968
One aspect of Project REDY (Rural Education-Disadvantaged Youth) was to identify elements of family living which were satisfying to residents of an economically depressed rural area in Southern Illinois. McVoy's Wants and Satisfaction scale was administered to 115 family heads to determine the degree to which certain wishes and interests of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Experimental Programs
Los Angeles City Schools, CA. Div. of Career and Continuing Education. – 1976
The handbook is designed for use by administrators, teachers, and instructional aides in the Aides to Career Education (ACE) Program. The program provides assistance to academically, socially, economically, and culturally disadvantaged students in secondary vocational programs by employing instructional aides who are subject field specialists to…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Legislation, Educational Programs
