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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1978
The study reported here involves six countries (Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, United Kingdom, United States, and Sweden) and focuses on the ways in which those who are actively employed have access to opportunities to alternate education and training with their employment. The first chapter discusses the study structure and defines the field covered…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Business Cycles, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness
Barton, Paul E. – 1980
In rethinking its policy with regard to involvement in the vocational education enterprise, the federal government must consider traditional educational goals as well as recent social, economic, and demographic changes. If the idea of vocational education as part of the public school system is going to work, it is necessary to make vocational…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Demography, Economic Change
Copeland, William C.; Iversen, Iver A. – 1981
A shrinkage of one-half or more in available federal funds designated for human services is expected to occur in the next five years. Despite this outlook, federal funds are available for increases in human services, provided that such services are organized into related systems of services and are planned and managed as such. This essay on…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Employment Services, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Drew, Jenifer D.; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to determine the extent to which federal policies, as defined in the Education Amendments of 1976, have affected the content and objectives of Consumer and Homemaking Education (C&HE) programs. The study was conducted during 1978 through 1981 in 10 states. More than 500 federal, state, and local educators and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Consumer Education, Educational Change
Koster, Fran – 1978
The document reviews recent literature on warning processes, evaluates the effectiveness of warnings in changing public policy and personal behavior, and applies warning literature to specific problem areas. Warning is interpreted to include a statement of the problem and a proposed course of action. The document is presented in six parts. Part…
Descriptors: Accidents, Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies, Chemical Industry
Orfield, Gary – 1975
The difficulties of sorting out the various forces working toward accelerated suburbanization are first discussed in this paper. Secondly, it describes the very severe long term problem of flight not caused by desegregation plans but tending to undermine their viability. Thirdly, it suggests that not only central cities but some inner suburbs as…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Youth, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Adamson, H. Douglas – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2005
This book addresses questions of language education in the United States, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students in American public schools who do not speak English as a native language. These students are at the center of a national debate about the right relationship among ESL, bilingual, and mainstream classes. Bilingual education…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Public Policy
Shohet, Linda – 2002
The concepts of literacy and health have been evolving and broadening, and interest in the connections between the two has been growing in Australia and elsewhere. However, the scope of practices related to health literacy in the health fields and in the adult literacy education field have remained fairly static. Research has identified the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Achievement Rating, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Hajaj, Khaldoun – 2002
Despite calls by consumer advocates for Australia's governments and financial services institutions to provide consumers with resources to help them understand how the financial services sector operates, financial education remains something that most Australians gain by default. Research conducted in the United Kingdom and United States, has…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Plewis, Ian; Preston, John – 2001
This document presents the key principles underpinning effective evaluations as applied to policy initiatives in the field of lifelong learning (LL) and the various methods available to implement them. The following are among the topics discussed in Chapters 1-6: (1) the distinction between monitoring, modeling, and evaluation and considerations…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness
Department for Education and Employment, London (England). – 2000
A working group of professionals and practitioners from across England was formed to identify the basic skills needs of and adults with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and to determine how to better meet those needs. The working group sent out a "call for evidence" and used its own networks to gather evidence. The evidence was…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
Friedman, Pamela – Issue Notes, 2002
The numerous layoffs of low-income workers that occurred when the nation's economy slowed in 2001 have created numerous challenges for local Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs. By increasing collaboration between community economic development and workforce development efforts to serve low-income residents, states and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Development, Cooperative Planning, Corporations
Reardon, Robert C.; Vernick, Stacie H.; Reed, Corey A. – 2001
Civilian employment data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1960-1990 were analyzed with respect to the following factors: (1) the six kinds of work considered in the Holland occupational classification system (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional); (2) occupation; (3) employment; (4) gender; (5)…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Comparative Analysis
de Wolff, Alice – 2000
A survey of 205 people, 4 group interviews with approximately 30 people, and 6 design and analysis meetings involving approximately 40 people were conducted in a 1999 participatory study of contingent workers in Toronto. (Contingent work was defined to be lower-waged forms of non-permanent work arrangements that include contracting, employment…
Descriptors: Adults, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Friedman, Pamela – Reauthorization Notes, 2001
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 led to an increase in the percentage of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients seeking more immediate employment and a decline in the percentage pursuing postsecondary education or degree programs. Since TANF's enactment, several legislative bills have…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Educational Attitudes
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