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Analysis Of Child Care Survey And Vendor Participation Patterns In The Wisconsin Shares Child Care Subsidy Program Operating In Se Wisconsin, John Pawasarat Jan 2003

Analysis Of Child Care Survey And Vendor Participation Patterns In The Wisconsin Shares Child Care Subsidy Program Operating In Se Wisconsin, John Pawasarat

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At the request of Milwaukee County, the Employment and Training Institute conducted an analysis of the annual child care surveys of rates and analysis of Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy program participation patterns in Southeastern Wisconsin. The analysis was conducted for administrative purposes to help improve the accuracy of the survey for rate setting purposes.


Book Review Of Mary Kellogg Rice's Useful Work For Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee Wpa Project, Lois M. Quinn Jan 2003

Book Review Of Mary Kellogg Rice's Useful Work For Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee Wpa Project, Lois M. Quinn

ETI Publications

A book review of the manuscript by Mary Kellogg Rice on “Useful Work for Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project.” Rice was a senior at Milwaukee State Teachers College during the Great Depression when her teacher asked her to help develop a Works Progress Administration project for women lacking skills for the other WPA projects operating in Milwaukee County. Within a few weeks Rice and her team of young art education graduates were training over 900 women to make useful products for the county orphanage, county hospital, local schools, and the WPA nursery schools.


An Institutional History Of The Ged By Lois M. Quinn, Lois M. Quinn Jan 2003

An Institutional History Of The Ged By Lois M. Quinn, Lois M. Quinn

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This history of the development and promotion of the GED credential examines how a multiple choice test came to be the primary vehicle for educating high school non-completers and why so few adult high school completion programs model the Carnegie unit high school. The history examines the origin of the “general education development” curriculum advocated by the American Council on Education and the evolution of the Iowa Tests of Educational Development, the first GED test. It explores the attack on the Carnegie-unit high school by progressive educators during World War II and introduction of the GED test to promote their …