With very little change, existing structures can be used to implement a restructured national education agenda involving incentives to make learning a family priority. When parents become involved as coteachers and colearners with incentives to create a learning-valued home environment, the consequences for student learning will be dramatic. (MLH)

Any type of organization can be a learning organization (LO) if it possesses certain characteristics: provide continuous learning opportunities, use learning to reach its goals, link individual performance with organizational performance, foster inquiry and dialogue, embrace creative tension as a source of energy and renewal, and be continuously…

This document contains three papers from a symposium on international perspectives on human resource development (HRD). The first paper, "Human Resource Development Practices in American and Chinese High-technology Companies in Taiwan" (Hsin-yi Chen), uses quantitative and qualitative data on HRD practices in high-technology companies in…