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Download full textTrego, Nancy ReMine – 1987
Amendments to the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) require each service delivery area to develop an educational component as part of its Summer Youth Employment Program. The Summer Youth Employment Program enhances the basic educational skills of youth, encourages school completion for enrollment in supplementary or alternative school programs,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Delivery Systems, Dropouts
Stone, Charles F.; Sawhill, Isabel V. – 1986
A study analyzed how trade has affected and was likely to affect the economy along three dimensions: (1) the employment shifts occurring during the years 1972-1984; (2) the outlook for employment projected to 1990 under four different scenarios; and (3) issues related to displaced workers. Increased international trade was found to have been…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Career Change, Dislocated Workers
Baenen, Nancy R. – 1990
Programs implemented in 1989-90 by the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) using Chapter 2 Formula federal funds are described. Chapter 2 Formula provides federal funds to the states through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as amended in 1988. Chapter 2 funds can support programs that meet the educational needs of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Finance
JTPA Issues, 1989
This Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Update provides a quick primer of some of the key areas where states have flexibility to develop their own programs and processes in the new Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program. This guide is organized in seven sections that cover the following topics: (1) introduction; (2) why local areas…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA. Center for Human Resources. – 1989
This guide was developed to help Private Industry Council members and Job Training Partnership Act Service Delivery Area directors, planners, and program managers to develop new services by providing an introduction to the elements of effective basic skills programs. The guide is organized in three major parts. Part 1 reviews the research on the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
Berney, Tomi D.; Keyes, Jose L. – 1990
The Computer Writing Skills for Limited English Proficient Students (Project COMPUGRAFIA.LEP), bilingual special education classes totalling 375 Spanish-speaking students at 10 elementary schools in the Bronx, is evaluated. The project proposed to assist site teachers in developing appropriate lesson plans and effective teaching techniques and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education, Computer Science Education, Elementary Education
Sum, Andrew M.; Harrington, Paul E. – 1981
This report on labor force and occupational information needs of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors begins with a description of the CETA legislation and programs. The role and use of this information in CETA policy-making and program planning is addressed. Chapter 2 reviews the prime sponsor planning process for CETA…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Education, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Shannon, Thomas A. – 1982
When President Reagan took office in January 1981, the federal government had a four-fold function in public secondary and elementary education that included financing high-cost programs of overriding national significance and advancing the cause of civil rights throughout the nation. According to Reagan's "new federalism," the role of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
DOD Schools: Funding and Operating Alternatives for Education of Dependents. Report to the Congress.
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1986
This study investigates three alternative methods in practice for operating and funding the Department of Defense (DOD) dependents' schools that are located in American military installations. Through the Military Construction Authorization Act of 1985, Congress indicated that federal maintenance and operation of dependents' schools was not an…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Dependents, Dependents Schools, Educational Finance
Rock, Donald A.; And Others – 1985
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Seniors Class of 1972 (NLS) and from High School and Beyond (HS&B), this study documents changes in the academic achievement of high school seniors between 1972-1980. It also identifies the school and student factors related to these changes. Its purpose is to inform…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Preparation, Educational Assessment
Markowicz, Arlene, Ed.; And Others – NAB Clearinghouse Quarterly, 1984
This issue targets the high risk segment of the youth population and their high unemployment rate. An overview discusses the contents. Ten "Bulletins" offer descriptions of programs and projects and demonstrate how long-term training, work and academic experience, and individualized training operate in functioning programs. To assist…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Counseling, Career Education, Cooperative Programs
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Office of Educational Accountability. – 1985
This document combines and consolidates the following statistical reports published separately prior to 1983-84: (1) "The Status of Education" (formerly the Superintendent's Annual Statistical Report); (2) "Selected Statistical Information--Individual Dade County Public Schools"; (3) "Ethnic Characteristics of Students and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on the Handicapped. – 1987
This brochure provides basic information to handicapped persons (specifically those who are blind, deaf, or developmentally disabled), or to the parents or guardians of a handicapped child, on the principal federally funded government services for which they may be eligible. It provides advice on how to begin looking for services provided in a…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Developmental Disabilities, Educational Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education
Funkhouser, Janie E.; Moore, Mary T. – 1986
Because magnet schools restructure school and district attendance area boundaries in order to achieve racial heterogeneity, they attempt to disassemble the very unit towards which the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Chapter 1 program targets its resources--neighborhood schools attended by poor children. A nine-district survey of the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Board of Education Policy, Compensatory Education, Conflict
Scorza, Margaret H.; And Others – 1988
Under Title VII funding, Project BEAMS (Bilingual Education for Achievement in Mathematics and Science) provided educational and support activities to 214 gifted students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in three Brooklyn high schools. The program gave students of Spanish, Haitian, Chinese, Korean, Middle Eastern, and various European…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement, Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese
