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Building a Better Life: Implementing a Career and Technical Education Program for Incarcerated Youth
Peer reviewed
Direct linkDelliCarpini, Margo – Journal of Correctional Education, 2010
This article reports on the development and implementation of a Career and Technical Education (CTE) Program in a county jail system in New York State. The program is funded through the Carl D. Perkins Career & Technical Education Act, which reserves a pocket of funds for individuals in county correctional institutions. This program integrated…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Educational Practices, Vocational Education
Hampton, Peter J. – Adult Leadership, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Communication Skills, Disadvantaged
Mohar, Robert C.; Hunt, Edward E. – 1975
The Metropolitan Youth Education Center's program is designed to help high school dropouts and the unemployed or under-employed whose problems are attributable to educational deprivation. The educational program is highly individualized. Each student program is developed to meet the personal goals, time available, ability and achievement level of…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational Assessment
Download full textBorei, Sven H. E.; Shively, Joe E. – 1981
The Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) contracted with the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to seek information on the presence, operation, and impact of adult learning programs within the 13-state Appalachian Region. Literacy was defined on a program operation base, possible programs were listed, and program descriptions were obtained…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Definitions, High School Equivalency Programs
Baldwin, Fred D. – Appalachia, 2002
Rural Marion County (Tennessee), the town of Kimball, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and a local community college founded a regional skills center. The center offers a 2-year associate of science degree and classes in GED preparation, parenting, drug abuse prevention, cosmetology, and air conditioning and refrigeration. It has expanded…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning
Martinez, Art; Gonis, Marla – 1992
The High School Equivalency Program (HEP) at Milwaukee Area Technical College, in Wisconsin, is designed to help migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents obtain General Educational Development (GED) degrees, and gain employment or enroll in postsecondary educational programs outside of the agricultural setting. Before enrolling in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
MetaMetrics, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1977
The study described here was undertaken to develop a comprehensive description of corrections education programs in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) and to make recommendations regarding their purposes and operations including their relation to other Federal corrections programs. Presentation is in five sections: An overview…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Agency Cooperation
Fischer, Joseph C.; Larson, Katherine E. – 1995
The evaluation report details the structure and outcomes of a workplace education program for members of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union from May 1993 through March 1995, and assesses the program's design as a model for similar programs elsewhere. The program was designed to enhance workers' skills and meet personal educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development
Kasworm, Carol E., Ed.; Lyle, Buddy L., Ed. – 1978
Selected contributions from a workshop on competency-based adult education (CBAE) are presented in this monograph. The articles define the current trends in the theory and practice of CBAE. The monograph consists of five major sections. Section 1, the overview, offers a historical frame of reference, examination of terminology and definitions, a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Basic Skills
Bittner, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Of the liberal movements dominating the thought of the world today, the greatest of all is the sweep of education. No phrase or dissertation can compass the entire scope or catch all the essential elements of the newer education that is shaping itself. But everywhere one direction is apparent: The trend of education is toward the people in mass…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Extension Education, Agricultural Colleges
