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Download full textADKINS, WINTHROP R.; AND OTHERS – 1967
TRAINING RESOURCES FOR YOUTH, INC. (PROJECT TRY) WAS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH 600 17-21 YEAR OLD MALES IN THE BEDFORD-STUYVESANT AREA OF BROOKLYN COULD LEARN VOCATIONAL, PERSONAL, AND SOCIAL SKILLS. SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH TECHNIQUES WERE USED TO PRODUCE POSITIVE CHANGES IN ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS OF…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior, Disadvantaged Youth, Males
Great Cities Research Council, Chicago, IL. – 1964
DESCRIBED ARE APPROXIMATELY 55 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS DEVELOPED BY THE MEMBER GREAT CITIES WITHIN THE PAST 2 YEARS. THE BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH PROGRAM INCLUDES--THE YOUTH INVOLVED, PROGRAM FEATURES, PROGRAM GOALS AND/OR EVALUATIONS AND SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. THE FOLLOWING ARE AMONG THE PROGRAMS REPORTED--JOB PREPARATION…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Distributive Education, Job Training, Objectives
National Evaluation Systems, Inc., Amherst, MA. – 1979
A project was designed to develop guidelines which would give direction to local school personnel in the implementation of supportive services for the special needs population participating in regular vocational education programs. Following a literature search, telephone interview instruments were developed and administered to school…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Disadvantaged Youth, Handicapped Students, Mainstreaming
Hamilton, James B. – 1967
To determine characteristics of students and aspects of vocational education programs essential to the serving of youth with special needs in rural Ohio high schools, 154 ninth grade youths with special needs were compared with 169 other ninth grade students. Analysis of variance and coefficient of correlation "t" test and chi square…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Needs, Grade 9, High School Students
Bowen, Howard R. – 1974
The proposition that "every young person should graduate from high school with a marketable skill" raises a number of significant issues. (1) Any prescription for "every" person is questionable. (2) Does the phrase "marketable skill" refer to a specialized skill or does it refer to the ability to fill a job? (3) If the definition of marketable…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Philosophy, Educational Principles
MCMILLION, MARTIN B. – 1966
THE STUDY ATTEMPTED (1) TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT SOCIOECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PUPILS AND TWO OTHER SOCIOECONOMIC GROUPS OF PUPILS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL GRADES PLACED A SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT CONNOTATIVE MEANING ON SELECTED WORDS AND PHRASES WHICH ARE OF IMPORTANCE TO VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE, (2) TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Communication (Thought Transfer), Disadvantaged Youth, Rural Youth
Pestle, Ruth – 1976
A pilot project implemented a role-model approach to job transition for disadvantaged cooperative home economics students in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. From 1974 through 1976, 21 students in four urban high schools were matched with role models on the job. Sixteen of these students retained their jobs. The matches included many different…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Occupational Home Economics, Role Models
Matters, Charles H. – American Vocational Journal, 1974
There is a communication and articulation problem today between vocational educators and persons from special education and guidance. Those in special education, guidance and vocational education should effectively communicate and work together to solve the complex problem of providing quality vocational education for the handicapped and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Disadvantaged Youth, Guidance, Handicapped Students
Shoemake, R. Glenn – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1972
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Disadvantaged Youth, Secondary Education
Sinick, Daniel; And Others – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1971
Pertinent practices and their effectiveness are reviewed, with the studies focusing on special groups of slow learners, agriculture students, noncollege bound students, girls, and inner city students ranging from kindergarten to college. (Author)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Noncollege Bound Students, Occupations, Slow Learners
Peer reviewedMimbs, Cory L. – Journal of Studies in Technical Careers, 1980
Legislative direction alone cannot provide a solution to the youth unemployment problem. Recognition by CETA prime sponsors of the values of vocational education and a corresponding willingness of educators to adapt to CETA is necessary to achieve that goal. (CT)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Cooperation, Educational Legislation
Direct linkRaffo, Carlo – Journal of Education Policy, 2006
The aim of the paper is to examine current and evolving supply side transition policy initiatives in the light of (a) particular demand side needs of urban young people classified as those most disadvantaged and potentially marginalized; and (b) the emerging realities of accessing and operating within particular examples of high value-added…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Qualitative Research, Disadvantaged Youth
Webber, Kenneth G. – 1983
The purposes of this study were (1) to develop a profile of the disadvantaged student and (2) to arrive at an estimate of how many vocational students in New Hampshire may be eligible for services under the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976. Two different populations participated in the study. The first group was composed of 49 subjects of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Enrollment, High School Students, High Schools
Feldt, Glenda D. – 1985
A training program which has been operating in Virginia Beach City Public Schools since 1980 provides services to disadvantaged and handicapped students ranging in age from 14 to 22 years. Each student participates on an individualized basis in academic and vocational activities, with rehabilitation counseling support, to develop appropriate work…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship
KEMP, BARBARA H. – 1966
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOCIOECONOMICALLY HANDICAPPED, STEPS WHICH MUST BE TAKEN TO HELP THEM SUCCEED IN REGULAR VOCATIONAL PROGRAMS, AND THE OPPORTUNITIES OPENED FOR THEM BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT OF 1963 ARE DESCRIBED. POVERTY, RACE, AND MOBILITY ARE SOME OF THE CONDITIONING FACTORS OF THE HANDICAPPED. MANY OF THE YOUTH…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Poverty, Program Administration, Program Development
