Guide to Federal Funding in Career Education, Education and Work and Vocational Education.

Overview & Synopsis

This brochure by the Coordinating Committee on Research in Vocational Education (CCRVE) for prospective grantees and contractors provides information on the various kinds of federal funding for research, development, and demonstration projects available in vocational education, career education, and education and work. It discusses these federal programs represented by CCRVE. Section 2 outlines the administrative echelons within the United States Department of Education. Five succeeding sections outline the work of those offices within the Department of Education which are primarily concerned with funding programs and projects in vocational education, career education, and education and work. They include (1) The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education within the Office for Educational Research and Improvement, (2) The Office of Career Education, (3) The Office of Vocational and Adult Education, (4) The National Institute of Education within the Office for Educational Research and Improvement, and (5) Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. Contact persons for additional information are listed. Section 8 suggests other sources of funding and lists contact persons for further information. Section 9 describes federal and state project information publications. Resource publications to which one may subscribe are listed in section 10. (YLB)