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New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Occupational and Continuing Education. – 1984
A study examined approximately 130 projects that were conducted in New York between November 1980 and December 1983 as a part of the state's Short-Term Program for Economic Development. During the study, researchers interviewed representatives of the businesses, industries, unions, and educational institutions involved in the training programs in…
Descriptors: Business, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Download full textEmployment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1977
The aim of the research review reported here was to draw together empirical findings that illuminate the factors affecting Work Incentive Program (WIN) results and contribute to discussion of future welfare, work-training, and employment policies. (WIN, authorized in 1967, has sought to put people on Aid to Dependent Children (AFDC) to work…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Family Structure, Federal Programs
Blaustein, Saul J. – 1981
This monograph describes a proposed program called the Job Security System (JSS), which would integrate the various public programs designed to help experienced unemployed workers find work. A justification for JSS and its general design are presented in the introduction, followed by a description of such potential JSS clientele as previously…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Coordination, Counseling Services
National Planning Association, Washington, DC. – 1978
Focusing on education and training needs for law enforcement and criminal justice personnel, this document is one in a series of six volumes reporting the results of the National Manpower Survey (NMS) of the Criminal Justice System. Chapter 1 of ten chapters provides an overview of nine types of educational and/or training programs, including the…
Descriptors: Correctional Rehabilitation, Courts, Criminal Law, Educational Needs
Casey, Florence M., Ed. – 1977
In this anthology of papers by academic and other experts, the job creation potential of a major public jobs program is explored. The authors were encouraged to develop new ideas and to estimate the impact of their approach. In general the ideas reported relate to jobs created as the result of responses to social and environmental concerns.…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Role, Correctional Rehabilitation, Day Care
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Washington, DC. – 1978
As mandated in the 1973 Amendments to the Safe Streets Act, the National Manpower Survey of the Criminal Justice System was conducted to assess current and projected manpower needs, personnel quality, and training and education programs. Data were collected from the following sources: surveys of 8,000 executives of state and local criminal justice…
Descriptors: Administrators, Correctional Rehabilitation, Courts, Criminal Law
Newland, Kathleen – 1979
Changes in economic and social life throughout the world during the next 25 years will be closely related to changes in the status and roles of women. In this book the author examines how women's roles are changing and the impact of this change on economic and social patterns. Chapter I identifies areas in which women have already gained increased…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Books, Change Strategies, Civil Rights
Klein, Lawrence R.; Ghozeil, Susan – 1979
This volume makes available to a broad readership dissertation findings from social and behavioral sciences research supported by the Employment and Training Administration. Each of twenty-one dissertations, rewritten in the vernacular, is presented in condensed form for primarily nonacademic readers. These popularized selections, which have been…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Content Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Factors
Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1967
THE CANADA NEWSTART PROGRAM AIMS TO DEVELOP, THROUGH ACTION RESEARCH, PROGRAMS APPLICABLE THROUGHOUT THE NATION, FOR MOTIVATING AND TRAINING UNEMPLOYED AND UNDEREMPLOYED ADULTS. PILOT PROJECTS WILL BE CONDUCTED BY CORPORATIONS WHICH ARE TO BE CHARTERED BY THE PROVINCES AND FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THE AREAS SELECTED FOR STUDY WILL BE…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrative Organization, Adult Basic Education, Adult Farmer Education
Syracuse Univ., NY. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Education. – 1967
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS 30 INDEXED AND ABSTRACTED ENTRIES ON NUMEROUS ASPECTS AND CONCERNS OF COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOR ADULTS, INCLUDING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD, MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT, LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATION NEEDS, DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE, COMMUNITY PLANNING AND…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies, Apprenticeships
LOGAN, WILLIAM B.; MEYER, WARREN G. – 1966
THIS REVIEW AND SYNTHESIS OF THE LITERATURE ON DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION INCLUDES 59 DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS WRITTEN SINCE 1930, 120 MASTERS STUDIES COMPLETED FROM 1957 THROUGH 1966, AND 71 OTHER STUDIES. TOPICS COVERED ARE (1) PHILOSOPHY AND OBJECTIVES, (2) MANPOWER NEEDS AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, (3) CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, (4) EDUCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Curriculum Development, Distributive Education, Educational Administration
Murugasu, V. – 1978
Work oriented education has been tied to national development in Malaysia since the 1960's. Increasing population, unemployment, and shortages of skilled manpower led the government to relate education more closely to work and develop technical and vocational education. Malaysia extended basic education to lower secondary manpower needs; and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Agricultural Education, Dropout Programs, Education Work Relationship
Pickard, Jerome P.; And Others – 1979
With a total area of 197,116 square miles, the Appalachian Region has an uneven distribution of population, income, wealth and natural resources. The Region's 19.3 million people live in 397 counties and 5 independent cities in Virginia. Under 50% of the population live in metropolitan counties while only 25% live in rural counties. In 1975 the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Agriculture, American Indians
Pointer, Avis Y.; Fishman, Jacob R. – 1968
This manual is an introduction to the New Careers Program, a program developed to train the unemployed and/or underemployed in entry-level skills for nonprofessional jobs in the human services ("the fields of public service in which a person-to-person relationship, crucial to the provision of services, exists between the receivers and the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Audiovisual Aids, Career Planning, Certification
Vanek, Joann – 1977
The paper analyzes the work roles of husbands and wives in the 1970s and suggests policies to implement sex equality in the workplace and at home. Data reviewed in the paper support the structural-cultural view that work behavior both inside and outside the home is shaped by deeply embedded cultural and structural forces. In 1975, 41% of families…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Child Rearing, Data Analysis, Day Care
