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Download full textSticht, Thomas G. – 1983
Research indicates that many illiterate youth and adults who become parents are unable to transfer high levels of oral language skills or to model literacy use for their children. Consequently, their children begin school without the readiness skills necessary to learn to read and thus continue a cycle of family illiteracy and employment problems.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Bordia, A. – 1981
Section 1 of this study reviews the insufficiency of literacy and basic education programs for adults offered by the colonial Ministry of Education in Zimbabwe prior to independence (1980). While section 2 emphasizes the significance of adult education for the new nation's development, including its implications for manpower training and the…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Adult Education, Adult Programs, African Culture
Barrett, Nancy S. – 1984
This examination of structural changes in the U.S. economy and its effect on the role of working women presents a policy agenda for alleviating some of the economic strains facing today's working woman. Material is arranged into 3 parts. Part 1 provides an historical backdrop and discusses women's shift out of housework, women as providers, and…
Descriptors: Day Care, Displaced Homemakers, Dual Career Family, Employed Parents
Blakely, Edward J.; And Others – 1983
Eleven papers on rural economic development cover challenges and opportunities; employment trends affecting nonmetropolitan areas; status of nonmetropolitan women and minorities; case studies of Vermont, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and California; western urban and regional development; economic development in small cities; and rural policy…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Census Figures, College Role, Economic Change
Anderson, Carmell F. – 1980
From its beginnings the history of adult education has been entwined with the evolutionary struggle between labor and management for workplace control. The history of worker's education is, in reality, the history of two types of education--worker's education under worker's control and labor-management adult education under company control. Each…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Administration
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1981
This congressional hearing contains testimony given in Montpelier, Vermont, at the first of a series of nationwide hearings on vocational education. Focus of this particular hearing is on the specific needs of Vermont as a rural northeastern state to train a workforce that is talented enough to help retrain existing businesses and industry and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN. Office of Manpower Studies. – 1984
A study assessed the need for technology programs in Grant County, Indiana. After compiling background data (population projections for the region, the educational level of adults living in the region, and the number and size of firms located in the area), concerning Grant County and the counties surrounding it, the researchers formulated…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Associate Degrees, Continuing Education, Demography
Holmstrom, Engin Inel; And Others – 1976
In a study that had as its object to look at recent changes in the potential pool of health manpower, the focus was on 1974 college freshmen who declared their intention of going into a career in a health field. Data came from the student files of the American Council on Education's Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The report has three…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Black Students, Career Choice, Cohort Analysis
STARK, JOHN R. – 1966
IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTIONNAIRE FROM THE JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE IN SEPTEMBER 1965, FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES DESCRIBED PROGRAMS CONCERNED WITH THE MAINTENANCE OR DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, EMPHASIZING THOSE INVOLVING EDUCATION AND TRAINING, REHABILITATION, EMPLOYMENT AND REEMPLOYMENT, HEALTH, CHILDREN'S WELFARE, INCOME- MAINTENANCE,…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adult Basic Education, American Indians, Apprenticeships
MONCUR, JOHN P., ED. – 1967
INSTITUTE PAPERS TREAT THE UTILIZATION OF SUPPORTIVE PERSONNEL IN SCHOOL SPEECH AND HEARING PROGRAMS. A PREFACE PRESENTS THE INSTITUTE'S PURPOSES, AND AN INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR DESCRIBES THE CONCERNS, ATTITUDES, AND CONCLUSIONS OF THE INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS. THE REPORT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING 10 SPEECHES--"WELCOME AND INTRODUCTORY…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Audiology, Conference Reports, Counseling
PDF pending restorationBale, Richard L.; Sprague, C. Fremont – 1977
The Mountain-Plains Education & Economic Development Program, which exemplifies the comprehensive, residential family-centered approach to serving the economically disadvantaged, was compared to four similar programs in the United States: Arizona Job Colleges (AJC) in Arizona; Madera Employment Training Center (METC) in California; Manpower,…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors
Employment Standards Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Women's Bureau. – 1976
The report presents data on selected social, economic, and demographic characteristics of women of Spanish origin in the United States. Derived from the population reports of the U.S. Census Bureau and the March 1973 Manpower Report of the President, the statistical data pertain to age, residence, marital status, heads of families and households,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Census Figures, Demography
CONSAD Research Corp., Pittsburgh, PA. – 1976
This report presents the study of a project conceived as a means of developing and testing a model Career Development Program. The project was designed to contribute significantly to the opening of nontraditional occupations to young women of low socioeconomic status and varying race and ethnic backgrounds. Three major goals were: (1) To assist a…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Guilfoy, Vivian M.; Grothe, Mardell S. – 1976
This second volume of a three-volume final report presents research and evaluation findings of a 3-year project to design, develop, and implement a comprehensive delivery system to meet the career-related information, guidance, and referral needs of home-based adults, those 16 and older neither working nor attending school on a full-time basis.…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adults, Career Choice, Career Counseling
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2004
North Carolina first established a Standard Course of Study in 1898. The "North Carolina Standard Course of Study" provides every content area a set of competencies for each grade and high school course. Its intent is to ensure rigorous student academic performance standards that are uniform across the state. It includes the subject or…
Descriptors: State Standards, High Schools, Academic Standards, Educational Philosophy
