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Roberts-Gray, Cindy – 1991
The Texas Education Agency identified the need to implement an evaluation system of performance standards for selected vocational education programs as required by the Perkins Act. The project developed criteria to assess vocational education in secondary schools in Texas. Two objectives were met during 1990-91: conduct background research on…
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavioral Objectives, Educational Change, Federal Legislation
Download full textOgawa, Russell – 1994
Hawaii's system of vocational education (VE) for criminal offenders in its correctional system was reviewed. This report updates a prior study done in 1989 on vocational education in corrections and thus contains comparative information and recommendations based on the latest research findings. Fourteen specialists and administrators involved in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correctional Education, Curriculum, Educational Change
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1997
In response to the 1990 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, Ohio formed an ad hoc committee that identified the following components of tech prep: systemic change, partnership, expanded student opportunities, early individual career education, competencies, and advanced skills. Ohio's strategic plan for tech prep has…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Competency Based Education, Consortia
PDF pending restorationBrancolini, Scott A.; And Others – 1995
This document summarizes the responses from members of the public throughout the 50 states, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to a September 1994 notice in the Federal Register in which the Secretary of Education invited public comments regarding reauthorization of programs under the Perkins Act, Adult Education Act, and National Literacy Act…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Articulation (Education), Block Grants
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1997
This congressional report contains testimony examining the status of vocational assistance and its role in work force development and the Clinton Administration's views on reforming the federal investment in vocational education. Testimony was provided by two U.S. senators (James M. Jeffords, Vermont; Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts) and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. Teaching and Learning Support Div. – 1997
In 1997, 78,644 Alaskans participated in vocational education (VE) in a public secondary school or university. Enrollments in secondary- and postsecondary-level VE were approximately equal. At the secondary level, 57% of vocational students were male. Alaskan natives accounted for only 15% of the total vocational enrollment at the postsecondary…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Annual Reports, Articulation (Education), Change Strategies
