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Download full text70001 Training & Employment Inst., Washington, DC. – 1988
This summary evaluates a federal demonstration program to reach "disconnected" youth not currently served by job training programs under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Disconnected youth are defined as those who have lost or never developed the traditional values of their communities, who do not participate in traditional…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Donaldson, William S. – 1990
The 1990 Summer Academic Skills Achievement Program in Columbus (Ohio) provided 160 hours of instruction in reading comprehension and language mechanics skills needed for entry-level employment to 123 Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) clients. The program used a "whole language" approach to grammar and composition instruction and also…
Descriptors: Attendance, Black Students, Federal Programs, High Schools
Watson, Bernardine; Jaffe, Natalie – 1990
Providing disadvantaged youth with the training to continue their education or to obtain meaningful, long-term employment has been hampered by lack of funding, inability to meet the multiple needs of at-risk youth, and the difficulty of recruiting at-risk youth to participate in programs. This report describes and recommends nine employment…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs, Federal Programs
Herrnstadt, Irwin L.; And Others – 1977
A case study of the introduction of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in Boston was conducted (1) to chronicle and analyze the changes in employment and training planning and programs as the federal policy changes from a centralized and categorical policy to a decentralized and decategorized one, (2) to examine the impact of…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, City Government
PDF pending restorationBarocci, Thomas A.; Myers, Charles A. – 1977
A study regarding the implementation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in four eastern Massachusetts prime sponsor areas (Cambridge, Lowell, New Bedford, and the Balance of State) was done to (1) examine the impact of the decisions made during the implementation of CETA on manpower services and institutions, program…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agency Cooperation, City Government, Community Change
Levitan, Sar A.; Miller, Elizabeth I. – 1992
In the 1980s and the early 1990s Congress failed to approve enterprise zone legislation which sought to help revitalize areas of high unemployment, poverty, and crime and low educational achievement by reducing taxes, relieving regulation, and eliminating other barriers to development. Establishment of comprehensive and sustained enterprise zone…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Federal Aid
