Download or read book Job Training Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Senate has passed the Workforce Investment Partnership Act of 1997 (the Senate version of H.R. 1385). This bill, like the House-passed H.R. 1385, the Employment, Training, and Literacy Enhancement Act of 1997 (H.R 1385), is intended to consolidate and reform education and training programs. The focus of this report is on the job training provisions of the House and Senate-passed versions of H.R. 1385.
Download or read book Learning to Work written by W. Norton Grubb and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1996-05-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grubb's powerful vision of a workforce development system connected by vertical ladders for upward mobility adds an important new dimension to our continued efforts at system reform. The unfortunate reality is that neither our first-chance education system nor our second-chance job training system have succeeded in creating clear pathways out of poverty for many of our citizens. Grubb's message deserves a serious hearing by policy makers and practitioners alike." —Evelyn Ganzglass, National Governors' Association Over the past three decades, job training programs have proliferated in response to mounting problems of unemployment, poverty, and expanding welfare rolls. These programs and the institutions that administer them have grown to a number and complexity that make it increasingly difficult for policymakers to interpret their effectiveness. Learning to Work offers a comprehensive assessment of efforts to move individuals into the workforce, and explains why their success has been limited. Learning to Work offers a complete history of job training in the United States, beginning with the Department of Labor's manpower development programs in the1960s and detailing the expansion of services through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act in the 1970s and the Job Training Partnership Act in the 1980s.Other programs have sprung from the welfare system or were designed to meet the needs of various state and corporate development initiatives. The result is a complex mosaic of welfare-to-work, second-chance training, and experimental programs, all with their own goals, methodology, institutional administration, and funding. Learning to Work examines the findings of the most recent and sophisticated job training evaluations and what they reveal for each type of program. Which agendas prove most effective? Do their effects last over time? How well do programs benefit various populations, from welfare recipients to youths to displaced employees in need of retraining? The results are not encouraging. Many programs increase employment and reduce welfare dependence, but by meager increments, and the results are often temporary. On average most programs boosted earnings by only $200 to $500 per year, and even these small effects tended to decay after four or five years.Overall, job training programs moved very few individuals permanently off welfare, and provided no entry into a middle-class occupation or income. Learning to Work provides possible explanations for these poor results, citing the limited scope of individual programs, their lack of linkages to other programs or job-related opportunities, the absence of academic content or solid instructional methods, and their vulnerability to local political interference. Author Norton Grubb traces the root of these problems to the inherent separation of job training programs from the more successful educational system. He proposes consolidating the two domains into a clearly defined hierarchy of programs that combine school- and work-based instruction and employ proven methods of student-centered, project-based teaching. By linking programs tailored to every level of need and replacing short-term job training with long-term education, a system could be created to enable individuals to achieve increasing levels of economic success. The problems that job training programs address are too serious too ignore. Learning to Work tells us what's wrong with job training today, and offers a practical vision for reform.
Download or read book Job Training that Works written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document reports the oral and written testimony submitted at a Congressional hearing on how job training works--how effective employment training programs succeed and how that success is measured. The hearing was based on a General Accounting Office study that found four hallmarks of effective job training: individual commitment, removal of personal barriers to employment, a focus on basic employment skills, and a close connection to the realities of the local job market. Witnesses included persons who had completed job training programs, operators of nonprofit organizations that conduct job training, government officials involved in job training programs, and representatives of corporations such as Marriott International that conduct extensive job training programs. The testimony focused on the need to coordinate efforts of job training programs so that potential participants do not have to work through a maze of hundreds of agencies. The witnesses pointed out that even well-educated people and professionals in the human services field have a hard time determining which agencies can help them and how to find those agencies. Some of the witnesses endorsed one-stop services such as those supported in the GI Bill and in a proposed Career Bill. (KC)
Download or read book Oversight of Federal Job Training Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Employment and Training and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Sense of Federal Employment and Training Policy for Youth and Adults Volume II written by American Youth Policy Forum, Washington, DC. and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document contains 27 essays and 5 policy statements regarding creation of a comprehensive and unified federal employment and training policy for youth and adults. The following essays are included: "In Search of the American Way" (Wills); "Rethink the Demand Side" (Smith); "The Federal Government as a Change Agent" (Nathan); "Making Sense of Federal Job Training Policy" (Spring); "Why Consolidation?" (Twomey); "Creating a National Human Resources Development System" (McGuire); "Future Directions for Employment & Training Policy" (Ganzglass); "Let's Build a System, Finally" (Butler); "Reinventing Federal Training Programs" (Carnevale); "Advancing America's Workforce" (Sofranac); "A Stitch in Time...Designing a Seamless Delivery System" (Pines); "A Labor Look at Job Training in 1995" (Roberts); "Youth Perspectives: Voices from the San Francisco Youth Coalition" (Eagleson, Bacher, Quizon); "Job Training Reform, Youth Development & Youth Corps" (Moore); "Approaching a New Era of Job Training" (Stoneman); "Developing Career Centers from the Inside Out" (Dorrer); Changing Our Approach to Federal Job Training Policy" (Strumpf); "Employment & Training" (Packer); "Management and Substance" (Sturomski); "Policy Opportunities for Teens in an Era of Change" (Hahn); "Anecdotes & Public Policy Prisms in Employment & Training" (Taylor); "Ensuring Equity for Young Women in Job Training" (Wurf); "Improving Employment Options of People with Disabilities" (Bartels); "Investment or Disinvestment?" (Kaplan); "Job Training Reform Must Assure Women Equity, Access and Specialized Direct Services" (Miller); "Vocational Education" (Jennings); and "A Community College Perspective" (Visdos). Also included are the following policy statements/recommendations: "Guiding Principles on Consolidation" (National Association of Counties and National Association of County Training & Employment Professionals); "Guiding Principles for Establishment of a Comprehensive & Consolidated Workforce Preparation & Development System" (U.S. Conference of Mayors); "Main Components of the G.I. Bill for America's Workers" (excerpted from President Clinton's Middle Class Bill of Rights); "Declaration of Intent" (excerpted from H.R. 511 introduced on January 13, 1995 by Representative Buck McKeon); and "Consolidating & Reforming Federal Job Training Programs" (joint statement by Senators Kennedy and Kassenbaum excerpted from Congressional Record, June 9, 1994.) (MN)
Download or read book Reforming and Consolidating Federal Job Training Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reforming and Consolidating Federal Job Training Programs: Hearing Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session on Examining Proposals to Reform and Consolidate Federal Job Training Programs; September 28, 1994 The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:00 a.m., in room SD - 430, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Edward M. Kennedy (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senators Kennedy, Pell, Simon, and Kassebaum. Opening Statement of Senator Kennedy The Chairman. We will come to order. Today's hearing is a continuation of our bipartisan effort to consolidate, reform, and revitalize Federally-funded job training programs. In his State of the Union Address this year, President Clinton called on Congress to improve all aspects of Federal work force development policy. In this session of the Congress, we have responded by enacting new education and job training measures for young people, such as the School to Work Opportunities Act, Goals 2000, and the Educate America Act. We have also made significant progress in responding to President Clinton's challenge to streamline today's patchwork of job training programs and make them a source of skills for people who lose their jobs. For the past 6 months, we have been working to develop legislation to make job training more responsive to the needs of job seekers, workers, and businesses. We have made substantial progress and reached agreement on many aspects of a comprehensive reform bill. Compared to other major industrial nations, the United States does not have a coherent labor market policy to help workers and firms adjust to structural changes in our economy. The basic building blocks of our current job training system were established during the New Deal, the New Frontier, and Great Society years. The challenge then was to help hard-to-serve groups enter the labor force. As we head into the 21st century, we must respond to a new set of problems. As a result of increased international competition, technological change and defense downsizing, many workers already in the labor force need to be retrained to have their skills improved, often several times over the course of their careers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Job Training Reform written by Ann Lordeman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hearings on Reform of the Major Federal Job Training Adult Education and Literacy Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training, and Life-long Learning and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Job Training Reform Amendments written by Texas. Work Force Development Division and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings on Reform of the Major Federal Job Training Adult Education and Literacy Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training, and Life-long Learning and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward Excellence in Secondary Vocational Education written by David Walter Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reform of Federally Funded Manpower Training Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tangled Up in Blue written by Rosa Brooks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post “Tangled Up in Blue is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map for how our most dispossessed citizens may better relate to those sworn to protect and serve.” —The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . Brooks has produced an engaging page-turner that also outlines many broadly applicable lessons and sensible policy reforms.” —Foreign Affairs Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the "blue wall of silence" in this radical inside examination of American policing In her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University, Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law's troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world—and whether that world can be changed. In 2015, against the advice of everyone she knew, she applied to become a sworn, armed reserve police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department. Then as now, police violence was constantly in the news. The Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum, protests wracked America's cities, and each day brought more stories of cruel, corrupt cops, police violence, and the racial disparities that mar our criminal justice system. Lines were being drawn, and people were taking sides. But as Brooks made her way through the police academy and began work as a patrol officer in the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of the nation's capital, she found a reality far more complex than the headlines suggested. In Tangled Up in Blue, Brooks recounts her experiences inside the usually closed world of policing. From street shootings and domestic violence calls to the behind-the-scenes police work during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential inauguration, Brooks presents a revelatory account of what it's like inside the "blue wall of silence." She issues an urgent call for new laws and institutions, and argues that in a nation increasingly divided by race, class, ethnicity, geography, and ideology, a truly transformative approach to policing requires us to move beyond sound bites, slogans, and stereotypes. An explosive and groundbreaking investigation, Tangled Up in Blue complicates matters rather than simplifies them, and gives pause both to those who think police can do no wrong—and those who think they can do no right.
Download or read book The Job Training Charade written by Gordon Lafer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive critique showing that training has been a near-total failure. Examines the economic assumptions and track record of training policy, and provides a political analysis of why job training has remained so popular despite widespread evidence of its failure. [book jacket].
Download or read book Hearings on Reform of the U S Workforce Preparation System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training, and Life-long Learning and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book Workforce Training in California written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
