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Download full textAdvance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2024
The five-year initiative New Skills for Youth (NSFY) aimed to transform career readiness education and bridge the skills gap by supporting innovative strategies in 10 states across the United States. NSFY was one of the earliest and most impactful philanthropic investments in career pathways and career readiness in recent history and helped spark…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Youth Programs, Career Readiness, Federal Programs
Bauman, Kevin; Christensen, Cody – American Enterprise Institute, 2018
Policymakers at the state and federal levels have expressed concern over the emerging "skills gap"--the mismatch between the job skills employers are looking for and the skills that applicants in the labor market possess. The skills gap is most acute for middle-skilled jobs; that is, jobs that require training beyond high school but less…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Labor Force Development, Efficiency, Federal Legislation
Dyson, Lowell – Rural Conditions and Trends, 1999
Title I of the Workforce Investment Act (1998) overhauled the Job Training Partnership Act programs, creating new methods that allow local providers to meet the education, training, and employment needs of low-income adults, dislocated workers, and youth. Separate legislation revised federal vocational and technical-education assistance.…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. – 1999
This congressional hearing continues the House's oversight of the Department of Labor's (DOL's) Job Corps program, focusing on the fourth element of successful job training, maintaining a vocational curriculum that reflects current and future job opportunities. It reviews findings of a General Accounting Office (GAO) study that found the program…
Descriptors: Accountability, At Risk Persons, Federal Programs, Hearings
Training in Business and Industry, 1970
A capsulized report for fiscal 1969. (EB)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Community Action, Employment Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1980
Proceedings are presented of hearings before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources (1) to examine the transition from school to work and explore the nature of youth employment and unemployment and (2) to gauge the conditions, trends and problems likely to affect federal labor and human resources policy in the 1980s. Among those testifying…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Hearings, Higher Education
Illinois State Council on Vocational Education, Springfield. – 1989
A follow-up study investigated what happened to recommendations made as a result of a formal study of coordination between Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and vocational education programs in Illinois. Questionnaires listing the nine recommendations were sent to staff of the 26 service delivery areas (20 respondents), staff of the 61 regional…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Delivery Systems, Employment Programs
Drewes, Donald W.; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways and means for initiating and sustaining a lasting and mutually rewarding partnership between vocational education and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) youth programs. These suggestions were based on observations of over 100 programs throughout the United States judged to contain examples…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Coordination, Coordinators, Employment Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1998
The General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the labor market links and vocational training performance of the Job Corps, which is an employment and training program aimed at providing severely disadvantaged youth with a comprehensive array of services in residential settings. Data were collected from the following: interviews with Job Corps…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Williams, Shirley; And Others – 1981
Results of examinations of youth employment policies are presented for three countries--Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United States. Part 1 is a report by Shirley Williams with conclusions on the broad social and economic issues as they relate to problems of youth employment and unemployment. Parts 2 through 4 are the three…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Foreign Countries
Brower, Sally M. – 1980
This document is the second volume of a three-volume state-of-the-art report based on a study conducted to identify and analyze the effective mechanisms for facilitating coordination of vocational education programs with Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Title IV youth programs. Included in this volume is a distillation of…
Descriptors: Coordination, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Drewes, Donald W. – 1980
This document is the third volume of a three-volume state-of-the-art report based on a study conducted to identify and analyze the effective mechanisms for facilitating coordination of vocational education programs with Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Title IV youth programs. Included in this volume is an analysis of the…
Descriptors: Coordination, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Bender, Carl M.; Petty, Gregory C. – 1980
This document contains one of two reports presented at the Governor's National Forum on Youth Employment, May 22-23, 1980. Focusing on Missouri Youth and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), this report is divided into five sections. Section 1 presents a geo-economic profile of Missouri by the following regions: (1) the St. Louis…
Descriptors: Economic Status, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Employment Statistics
Brower, Sally M.; And Others – 1980
This document contains the first volume in a three-volume state-of-the-art report based on a study conducted to identify and analyze the effective mechanisms for facilitating coordination of vocational education programs with Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Title IV youth programs. Included in this volume are 111 case studies of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Coordination, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs
Hassan, Salah Salem – 1985
The purpose of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) is to establish job training and employment assistance programs for economically disadvantaged youth and hard-to-hire, unskilled adults. Like the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), JTPA works through a locally based program delivery system. Unlike CETA, JTPA calls for equal…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Cooperative Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
