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

Study results indicate that male dropout is not likely to return to school, while the female dropout is more likely to return to school and graduate. Counselors need to become more aware of the wide array of training programs available and to communicate this knowledge to potential and actual dropouts. (Author)

Excerpts from text of address at 1971 annual meeting of the American Vocational Association. (Editor/MU)

Manpower programs have not moved large groups of people up the occupational ladder but have placed the disadvantaged into entry level jobs and such government programs as the Manpower Development and Training Act have offered little on the job training. (BC)

A recent pre-job preparation educational program for unemployed adults, conducted in Monongalia County, West Virginia, was distinctive in that it attempted to deal with a wide range of problems faced by job seekers and to use the resources of all agencies in the manpower and social services field. It was also done with existing resources, not…

Discusses the need for involving industrial arts and all of education if we are to make a significant impact on the lives of youth and manpower development in America. This speech was presented at the 1970 convention of the American Association of School Administrators, Atlantic City, New Jersey. (GR)

This article is based on a speech delivered at the Conference of the Southwestern Library Association, Oct. 17, 1968, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The article reviews approaches to the question of unemployment of disabled persons undertaken in Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Hungary. (CL)

Summarizes the findings and methodology of some of the recent innovative labor market studies in the private sector. Emphasis is placed on the micro-data study of the job creation process at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Similar studies at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Brookings Institution are also summarized. (CT)

Briefly lists the major issues which will affect organizations in the 1980s. Also looks at an evolutionary adaptation of quality circles appropriate for management, the "verteam" or vertical team circle. (CT)