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Download full textManpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1969
Evaluations have been made of 55 early (1963-66) experimental and demonstration projects conducted in 18 states and the District of Columbia under the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 to reach and serve youth for whom the conventional approaches, techniques, and personnel seemed inadequate. Experiences and results of the projects are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Ancillary Services, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth
Adair, J. B., Ed. – 1969
This conference report deals with the roles and objectives of adult basic education in manpower development; educational personnel and technology; educational innovation; and special problems in teaching disadvantaged adults. Office of Education activities involving regional university resource specialists are described, as is the learning center…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development
Dispenzieri, Angelo; And Others – 1968
The College Discovery Program in New York City's Community Colleges was established to facilitate higher education for high school graduates who could no t afford college and who, though having the necessary intellectual ability, had low high school scholastic averages. The Program was to enable students to complete two years at a community…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Attitude Change, Community Colleges, Counseling Effectiveness
Twelker, Paul A.; And Others – 1972
The World Forum program gives college students an opportunity to explore a particular problem of personal and/or social consequence in the context of its anticipated alternative futures. This report explicates the nature of the program and describes the evaluation results of the developmental tryout. The goals of the program, developmental…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives, Evaluation
Garfinkel, Irwin; And Others – 1974
To what extent, if any, will workers in families receiving Government cash benefits reduce their hours of work? The papers by Irwin Garfinkel and by Glen Cain and Harold Watts review large numbers of studies on this question. These authors caution us against having great confidence in the detailed estimates of how workers will respond because…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Employed Women, Employment, Employment Level
Vera Inst. of Justice, New York, NY. – 1972
The final report of an experimental pre-trial intervention program of intensive manpower services (individual and group counseling and job, training, or academic placement with the help of career developers) for selected defendants in Manhattan covers the period November 1967 through October 1970. After three years and 1,300 participants,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Correctional Rehabilitation, Court Litigation, Courts
Clinton, A.; And Others – 1971
An evaluation of an experimental anthropology program which was introduced to students at the Magee Secondary School is presented. The purpose of the course, a detailed course outline, and the rationale and basic generalizations of Anthropology 11E are included. A listing of required and suggested course readings as well as student reaction to the…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Course Organization
Opportunities Industrialization Center of Oklahoma City and County, Inc., OK. – 1968
The goals of the Opportunities Industrialization Center organization in Oklahoma City include providing hope for impoverished and hard-core unemployed in the form of job preparation by providing adult education, prevocational training, skills training, counseling, job development, placement and followup. Another primary goal of OIC is providing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Counseling Services, Demonstration Programs
Korot, Beryl, Ed.; Gershuny, Phyllis, Ed. – Radical Software, 1971
A collection of informative articles which promote the ideal of free access to television technology appears in this tabloid format periodical. Of particular note is a proposed videotape distribution and exchange system, in which the periodical would serve as a clearinghouse for the exchange of non-commercial videotapes. Other articles concern…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cybernetics, Dial Access Information Systems
Cox, Derek M. – 1970
Instituted as part of "Avenues Unlimited" (The Tower Hamlets Youth Project), a community development approach to youth services was attempted in the cosmopolitan inner city slum district of Spitalfields, East London. Efforts began in 1966 with a clean up campaign, a neighborhood club for parents and youth, and other activities by the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Community Development, Consultants, Disadvantaged
Upjohn (W.E.) Inst. for Employment Research, Washington, DC. – 1973
This document describes how the plan for a National Task Bank evolved as part of an effort to encourage State and local public welfare agencies to adopt new approaches to staff planning and utilization. The task bank is an outgrowth of the application of systems approach and functional job analysis to agency management. Individualized data banks…
Descriptors: Databases, Experimental Programs, Federal Aid, Job Analysis
Lakey, George; And Others – 1972
This manual contains an outline for a fifteen hour training course intended for hypothetical peace groups and includes skills and techniques for trainers to transmit to adult participants. The group discovers through role playing that tolerance, openness, non-retaliation policies, and preparation can effectively implement social change. Materials,…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Civil Disobedience
Rehabilitation Research Foundation, Elmore, AL. – 1971
The Rehabilitation Research Foundation (RRF) proposes to conduct, under supervision of the State Department of Vocational Education, a Manpower Training Program for Prisoners (MTPP) at Draper Correctional Center, Elmore, Alabama. The project is proposed for 13 months. The proposal contains several innovative and experimental features, the most…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Behavior Change, Coordination
Napier, Lee – 1971
The purpose of this project was to help implement the change from traditional instructional programs in teacher education at Jackson State College, Mississippi, to programs which are competency-based, starting with the faculty and interns of Jackson State College-Hinds County Teacher Corps Program. From July 1970 through July 1971, 36 interns…
Descriptors: Black Students, Competency Based Education, Course Organization, Early Childhood Education
COOK, DORIS M.; AND OTHERS – 1966
GUIDELINES FOR INITIATING A RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION UNIT WITHIN A SCHOOL WERE PRESENTED. THE PROGRAM FOR ESTABLISHING THE UNITS WAS DEVELOPED TO (1) SECURE MORE EFFICIENT LEARNING BY STUDENTS (2) ENCOURAGE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT, AND (3) PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH, CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTATION, AND DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS. A…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Demonstration Programs, Educational Opportunities
