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Haasl, Wayne – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1988
The author encourages educators to investigate Job Training Partnership Act exemplary programs as Education for Employment programs are being designed. Although they serve different audiences, these two programs are very closely aligned to similar objectives related to employment education. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Potential
Download full textBarnow, Burt S.; Constantine, Jill – 1988
Because of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program's strong emphasis on performance, there is a danger that local JTPA programs are neglecting the program's goal of adequately serving those with the greatest problems in obtaining and sustaining employment. A number of JTPA officials at the federal, state, and local levels were interviewed…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Demonstration Programs, Eligibility, Employment Programs
Sklar, Morton H. – 1986
The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) mandates that service delivery areas shall expend 40 percent of Title IIA funds on training and employment programs for youth. To ensure quality programs, a substantial portion of resources should be targeted to the most seriously at-risk youth. The most effective youth programs take a comprehensive approach…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Scott, Gertrude M.; And Others – 1986
This guide describes the partnerships created by the Bay State Skills Corporation, which successfully united more than 100 people from government, education, and the private sector to train 332 people for jobs averaging $6.27 per hour to start; it also provides guidelines for establishing similar programs. The guide contains seven chapters. The…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
Green, James – 1989
The Massachusetts State Council on Vocational Education advocates both articulation between secondary schools and community colleges and system coordination between education and employment training. Council projects have had two basic operational goals: to create dialogue within and between sectors and to create products that would stimulate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Articulation (Education), Case Studies, College School Cooperation
Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1993
This manual is intended for use at demonstration sites of the Nontraditional Employment Training (NET) project, which is in turn designed to provide Private Industry Councils with a model for implementing the Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) Act (Public Law 102-235). Included in the manual are the following: excepts from newspapers and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Demonstration Programs, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
Perona, Gerald; Fowler-Hill, Sandra – 1985
This curriculum guide is intended to serve as a model for the educational component of a Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) reemployment training program for dislocated workers. The first section consists of a profile of the Dislocated Worker Project curriculum and an institutional data sheet. Included in the next section are an introduction to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Career Counseling, Career Education
Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 2000
This document, which is intended to provide technical assistance to individuals responsible for integrating year-round and summer employment and training services for youth under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), contains case studies of eight employment and training programs that have already or are in the process of integrating their summer…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Agency Cooperation, Articulation (Education), Case Studies
