Most Manpower educators will be attracted to the last paragraph where the author offers an evaluation model on request. (Editor)

This article appears in Manpower Research Visibility, a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (MU)

The head of the Women's Bureau challenges vocational education to break the unhappy syndrome'' of dead-end jobs and low pay for women in the work force. (Editor)

This article appears in Manpower Research Visibility, a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (MU)

The plight of the Alaskan native is forcefully described here. Employers recruit outside the state, while native residents, able and willing to work, cannot find jobs. Meanwhile Artic oil discoveries threaten to compound the dilemma. (Editor)

The Oklahoma City Vocational School of Practical Nursing has developed a program whereby potential students may challenge up to two or three terms of the curriculum. (LH)

Local labor unions know where the jobs are, what kind of training is needed, what kind of equipment is used, and can predict the needs of the local labor market. Several schools are involved in curriculum projects in which labor unions are cooperating with schools to prepare students for apprenticeships. (Author/BP)

While realizing the CETA manpower planning enterprise is limited, vocational educators can approach it as a source of additional resources with which to further vocational education goals and can press for maximum training allocation within various services, or as a source for vocational monies for the unemployed and disadvantaged. (Author/BP)

A course in building maintenance (at the Voc Tech Department of Pensacola Junior College, Florida) teaches students to maintain, repair, and rework existing facilities under the CETA program. The daily schedule includes one hour of classroom work covering related academic subjects and five hours spent working on a variety of projects. (LH)

Listed here in brief form are the provisions concerning vocational education in the Education Amendments of 1976. Amounts authorized through fiscal 1982 are shown in an accompanying table. (Editor/HD)

Fifteen reviews in this issue pertaining to rural and urban disadvantaged youth are organized under six topics: (1) Manpower Reports reviews the 1967 and 1968 Presidential Manpower Reports and a report on national goals and manpower requirements, (2) Training youthful offenders treats correctional programs at the Lorton Youth Center and the New…

Purdue University's Industrial Education Department cooperated with a county manpower center to provide on-the-job training for CETA clients in repairing Purdue's physical plant, thereby helping the manpower center clients and also the university's maintenance department. The article describes the training programs and skills instruction. (MF)