It is necessary to evaluate what went wrong with federal efforts to ease the manpower shortage so progress can be made toward establishing new vocational and literacy training programs to meet the workers' and the industries' needs in the era of technological revolution. (AG)

In the Fall of 1963, President Kennedy created the Rural Development Committee (RDC) and charged it with the responsibility of providing leadership and guidance to the several Federal departments and agencies responsible for rural development program functions. To help find solutions to problems facing the rural population, the RDC proposed a task…

This guide is intended to provide teachers and administrators, especially in West Virginia, with information about high school dropouts, their characteristics, and ways to retain potential dropouts in high school. A pretest and answer key precede the text of the report. The first section presents an overview of the dropout problem and its…

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conducted a thematic review to identify changes in young people's transition to working life during the 1990s and to identify those policies and programs that are effective in delivering successful transition outcomes for young people. The review focused on 14 countries with widely…