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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1994
Section 401 of Title IV of the Job Training Partnership Act established an employment and training program to serve Indians, Alaska Natives, and Hawaii Natives that is administered by the Department of Labor. Since 1992 a Native American Employment and Training Council, composed entirely of Native Americans, has advised Labor on a variety of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Expenditures
The Employer Perspective: A Survey of Employer Participation in Structured Workplace Learning, 2000.
AMR Interactive (Australia). – 2001
In 2000, a quantitative telephone survey of 2,098 businesses in Australia determined employer awareness of and participation in structured workplace learning (SWL) programs. It explored "drivers" of participation and employers' decision-making process. Comparisons with a 1998 survey identified changes in employer awareness, attitudes,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Job Placement
Ryan, T. A.; Woodard, Joseph Clifton, Jr. – 1987
A state-of-the-art analysis of correctional education in the United States was undertaken to determine significant changes or trends in relation to earlier studies in 1973 and 1977, years in which the prevailing philosophy guiding corrections was rehabilitation and resocialization, as opposed to the 1980s emphasis on deterrence and incapacitation.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Educational Attitudes
Stowell, Penelope, Ed. – 1990
The New Mexico Coalition for Literacy conducted a statewide literacy survey in May and June, 1990. Of 78 questionnaires distributed to programs believed to offer some adult literacy service, 34 responses were received, including those from 6 adult basic education programs, 1 adult education program on a reservation, 21 community-based and/or…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Curriculum Design, Educational Assessment
Administration for Children and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Div. of State Legalization and Repatriation. – 1991
The State Legalization Impact Assistance Grant (SLIAG) Program, administered by the Administration for Children and Families within the Department of Health and Human Services, provides grants to states to help them pay the costs of providing services to certain aliens legalized under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). An…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Citizenship Education, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
Sherron, Ronald H. – 1986
A longitudinal study examined adult basic education (ABE) in Virginia between 1970 and 1985. (The first study was conducted in 1970, the second in 1978, and the third in 1985.) Data for the 1985 study were collected from survey instruments mailed to all state department ABE personnel, local ABE supervisors, learning center coordinators, and ABE…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Counselor Characteristics, Curriculum Development, Demography
Miller, Larry; Hedges, Lowell – 1981
Policies and practices were identified that have led to the success of exemplary programs in adult vocational education in Ohio. Data were collected from adult vocational education personnel, students, and employers located in five exemplary planning districts. All districts had a full-time supervisor for adult programs, employed full- and…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Advisory Committees
