Judith M . Gueron and Gayle Hamilton The Role of Education and Training in Welfare Reform

Welfare and Poverty: The Elements of Reform

Special Issue Welfare Reform and Poverty Introduction Sheldon Danziger Our Poorest Citizens-children Consensus on Redirection-which Direction?

State welfare employment initiatives: Lessons from the 1980s

Workfare, reciprocal obligations, parental responsibility, and the need to balance opportunities with mandates have been prominent in the current lexicon of welfare reform, replacing the emphasis on entitlements and incentives familiar from an earlier era. This article discusses why the debate has shifted toward work strategies and summarizes what we know about the feasibility and success of th...

Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training.

Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The results suggest that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full-time vocational education and had no signif...

Nationalization of an educational reform: evolution of training and development in research

Many medical universitiesaround the world have donestunning changes in the recent years.Some of these changes have been performed with the support of international organizations.They changed the traditionaltrainingprograms based on teacher- centered learning and disciplined approach to the educational course based on community needs responsivity and Student-centered learning. This process is ai...