The same philosophies and operations were implemented throughout the Great Society programs of the 1960s as part of President Johnson's poverty initiative.  The Job Corps and all of the poverty-focused employment training programs utilized the best educational minds available to serve those where rigid public education and economic markets failed.  Innovative individualized instructional materials allowed teachers to work with each student according to their needs at any level of education.  The success rates were high and thousands and thousands of unemployed individuals lived and continue to live successful lives.  The Republicans demeaned and slandered all of these programs and those who worked in them.  They, finally, in the Reagan Administration were able to destroy all but a few still functioning.  Immediately after the programs were shut down, the corporations demanded new government funded training programs as the skilled work forces dried up.  The hypocrisy reeks.