[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR411.1]

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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
  CHAPTER IV--OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                                EDUCATION
 
PART 411--VOCATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 411.1  What is the Vocational Education Research Program?


    The Vocational Education Research Program is designed to--
    (a) Improve access to vocational educational programs for 
individuals with disabilities, individuals who are disadvantaged, men 
and women who are entering nontraditional occupations, adults who are in 
need of retraining, single parents, displaced homemakers, single 
pregnant women, individuals with limited English proficiency, and 
individuals who are incarcerated in correctional institutions;
    (b) Support research and development activities that make the United 
States more competitive in the world economy by developing more fully 
the academic and occupational skills of all segments of the population 
by concentrating resources on improving educational programs leading to 
academic and occupational skill competencies needed to work in a 
technologically advanced society;
    (c) Improve the competitive process by which research projects are 
awarded;
    (d) Encourage the dissemination of findings of research projects 
assisted under the Act to all States; and
    (e) Support research activities that are readily applicable to the 
vocational education setting and are of practical application to 
vocational education administrators, counselors, instructors, and others 
involved in vocational education.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 2401)