Duke Energy Foundation awards $265,000 for job training programs

Performance Management of U.S. Job Training Programs

This chapter reviews the effects of performance management systems in federally sponsored employment and training programs. We focus on programs for the disadvantaged because they have the longest history, but the lessons generalize to other programs. We find in our survey that most of the evidence on the effects of performance systems relates to their failure to motivate behavior in the direct...

Performance Management of U.S. Job Training Programs: Lessons from the Job Training Partnership Act

Performance management systems that provide (relatively) quick feedback to program operators play an important role in employment and training programs around the world. This paper brings together evidence on the effects of such systems, drawn primarily from the widely studied U.S. Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program. The questions addressed include the effects of performance standards ...

Scholar-in-Training Awards

The AACR is proud to offer Scholar-in-Training Awards to enable the participation of meritorious early-career scientists at the Annual Meeting 2017. Since its inception in 1986, the AACR Annual Meeting Scholar-in-Training Award program has provided more than 4,400 grants to young investigators and has received support from more than 50 cancer research foundations, corporations, individuals and ...

Scholar-in-Training Awards

[Actas-ISDIN awards: reward for a job well done].

Scientiic dermatology must look back to the end of the 19th century and Professor Eugenio Olavide for its roots. His book, Atlas de la clínica iconográica de enfermedades de la piel (Atlas of Clinical Illustrations of Skin Diseases), included some true iconographic treasures and superb illustrations that give us an introduction to the specialty. Continuity in his work was provided by his succes...