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Perry, Nancy J. – Fortune, 1989
Belying the stereotypes, vocational schools, with the help of business, are developing better-trained, more productive workers. Improved vocational education programs can make academics relevant, reduce the dropout rate, encourage postsecondary education, provide jobs, and retrain older workers. (SK)
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Entry Workers, High Schools, Job Skills
BCEL Newsletter for the Business & Literacy Communities, 1990
There are more than 4 million small businesses across the country that provide more than half of private sector employment, generate 47 percent of the gross national product, and generate two out of every three new jobs in the United States. Because small businesses provide the majority of new workers with their first work experience, they are at…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Corporate Education, Cost Effectiveness