NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 4,576 to 4,590 of 4,690 results Save | Export
Coleman, James S. – Momentum, 1987
Reviews study findings showing that, in comparison to public school students, Catholic school students have higher achievement in mathematics and verbal skills, take more math and English classes, and have lower dropout-rates. Relates high achievement to the "social capital" available to Catholic school children, school staff, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Catholic Schools, Church Role, Community Influence
Herman, Roger E.; Olivo, Thomas G.; Gioia, Joyce L. – 2003
Filled with evidence and advice for corporate leaders in for-profit, not-for-profit, governmental, and education organizations, this book addresses how to evaluate one's organization's vulnerability and take action. An introduction is followed by a section on the new roles of the chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Education, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Chicago Public Schools, IL. – 2002
This education plan sets out a vision for instruction and school development so that Chicago Public Schools, Illinois, can become the premier urban school district in the United States. It represents a year of planning and program development in the areas of human capital, professional development, the Chicago Reading Initiative, the redesign of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, After School Programs, Educational Change
Mortimer, Jeylan T. – 2003
This book reports on the Youth Development Study, which followed young people for more than a decade in St. Paul, MN, focusing on work experiences during high school. Chapter one, "Should Adolescents Work" discusses historical and contemporary studies, gender differences, controversies, and the cases for and against adolescent work.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Career Development, Education Work Relationship
2003
This publication describes resources and processes that are a catalyst for discussion and action for local workforce investment partners--employers, training providers, and workers--to plan and implement regional career ladder programs. Section 1 discusses career ladders and uses. Section 2 describes how to build an industry career ladder or…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Articulation (Education), Career Awareness, Career Education
Kerr, Robert – 2002
Keeping the existing information technology (IT) workforce viable and rapidly increasing the number of these workers presents a United States public policy workforce development (WD) challenge at all government levels. Public policy human capital investments have been undertaken to address the IT workforce supply and demand mismatch. States seem…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Educational Objectives, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Education and Culture. – 2001
This document provides information relevant to the commission's communication on "Making a European Area of Lifelong Learning a Reality." Section 2 presents a selection of illustrative examples of lifelong learning in practice throughout Europe, grouped under these same priority areas used in the communication itself: valuing learning;…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills
Callan, Patrick M.; Finney, Joni E. – 2003
This paper discusses the policy dimensions to increase the nation's educational capital by providing at least two years of education beyond high school for almost every young and working-age adult who is motivated and able to benefit. It focuses on creating multiple pathways resulting from collaborative efforts across educational sectors or…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Articulation (Education), Change Strategies
Toms, Jon; Falk, Ian; Kilpatrick, Sue – 1998
A project has been designed to identify how a non-metropolitan community consolidates and develops sustainable social and economic activity. For many authors, the political position reiterating vocational education and training (VET) as the pivotal contributor to building national economic sustainability is framed in terms of human capital…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developed Nations, Economic Development, Economic Impact
O'Brien, Paul; Paczynski, Wojciech – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish economy is to provide the current and future labour force with skills to facilitate both continuing productivity growth and reallocation of resources as structural adjustment proceeds. Important reforms to decentralise primary…
Descriptors: Productivity, Human Capital, Quality Control, Education Work Relationship
Guichard, Stephanie; Larre, Benedicte – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
The lack of human capital in Portugal has become a key obstacle to higher growth. This paper discusses the performance of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human capital gap with other OECD countries. Despite progress in the past decades, Portuguese children spend…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development
1998
This document contains four papers from a symposium on evaluating the impact of human resource development (HRD). "The Politics of Program Evaluation and the Misuse of Evaluation Findings" (Hallie Preskill, Robin Lackey) discusses the status of evaluation theory, evaluation as a political activity, and the findings from a survey on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Corporate Education, Corporations
Crawford, Everett; And Others – 1991
The multidimensional nature of the diversity of the nation's labor force was examined, with emphasis on the economic diversity within the population generally and within and among the demographic groups. Principal activities were a literature review focusing on the economics of the labor market, analysis of data from the 1980 Census, and a…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Blacks, Data Analysis
Haveman, Robert; Wolfe, Barbara – 1982
The human capital and growth accounting approaches to measuring the benefits of education both have serious weaknesses. Like other goods and services, educational services have effects on the economic well-being of individuals and families. Because the economic well-being effects of education include private marketed and non-marketed impacts as…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Economic Status, Educational Attainment, Educational Benefits
Mansfield, Edwin – 1982
In recent years economists have attempted to estimate the private and social rates of return from investments in education. Another area that must be considered is the effect of education on the rate of technological change and on capital formation. Still another factor that must be taken into account is the organization of education and research…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Progress, Economic Research, Educational Attainment
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  302  |  303  |  304  |  305  |  306  |  307  |  308  |  309  |  310  |  ...  |  313