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Download full textPolicy Update, 1994
This policy update provides an overview of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program as it applies to youth with disabilities at the time of their transition from high school. The paper defines "disabled individual" and "substantial gainful work," outlines how income and resources are identified for determining…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Eligibility, Federal Programs
Castellano, Marisa; Stringfield, Samuel; Stone, James R., III – 2002
A 5-year longitudinal study was designed to examine diverse and promising programs to integrate career and technical education (CTE) with whole-school reforms in schools serving predominantly disadvantaged students. A literature review focused on conceptual underpinnings: disadvantaged youth; transition points; whole-school reform; and CTE.…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Academies, Computer Uses in Education, Course Selection (Students)
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
In its fifth annual report for 1979, the National Commission for Employment Policy recommended that the nation make a new commitment to improving the employment prospects of disadvantaged youth. In preparing its findings and recommendations on youth unemployment, the commission received information from the Youth Task Force; academic consultants;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Ooms, Theodora; Owen, Todd – 1991
Meeting highlights and a background briefing report are provided from a policy seminar, one in a series of monthly staff seminars titled "Family Centered Social Policy: The Emerging Agenda." The highlights summarize remarks by three panelists. Alan Hershey describes the Teenage Parent Demonstration in New Jersey and Illinois and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Early Parenthood
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1993
This briefing paper presents a synthesis of data on early eligibility determination which provides middle- and secondary-school students and their parents with individualized information about their eligibility for financial aid to pay for higher education. This information is intended to be provided at a time when decisions must be made about…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Preparation, Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility
The Role of Career and Technical Education in the American High School: A Student Centered Analysis.
Gray, Kenneth – 2002
Historically, the role of career and technical education (CTE) has been a subject of debate. The various viewpoints regarding the best role for high school CTE can be condensed into the following options: (1) to provide an occupational sequence of courses that is integrated with rigorous academic course work as preparation for postsecondary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Articulation (Education), College Bound Students
Levitan, Mark; Gluck, Robin – 2002
Employment, earnings, and poverty among single mothers in New York City and across the United States in the age of welfare reform were examined to identify goals and recommendations for reauthorization of legislation regulating Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The study indicated that although job holding by single mothers has risen…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Block Grants, Change Strategies, Child Care
