Manpower Research Visibility is a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (SB)

A report on a training planning process with measurement at both input and output stages that has a built-in feedback which allows it to be self-evaluating. (RB)

A greater degree of responsibility in an employee's work creates a considerable increase in output because of increased interest and identification with the job. (EK)

New Jersy has vocational training programs for students who are not suited for traditional academic education. (RA)

Describes the often overlooked problem of employee absenteeism and makes suggestions for positive control of the problem. (AN)

Discusses the competence and productivity of American labor which the author ascribes to the effectiveness of training. (EK)

Four Spanish-speaking Americans discuss manpower programs and the needs of their people. (Editor)

With the help of Federal, State, and private funds, the nonprofit Manpower Development Corporation has developed in North Carolina a model useful in planning national manpower policy. (BH)

An evaluation of the effects of educational expansion on economic output between 1890 and 1960 shows (1) expansion at the secondary and doctorate levels was positively related to economic output since 1933; and (2) no effect of these or other levels of schooling on economic output before 1928 was manifested. (AOS)

Defines "disadvantaged youth" and reviews vocational training and employment programs designed for them. Finds that these activities tend to favor the relatively privileged rather than those with the greatest need. (SK)

Describes the role of textbooks in the development of student political attitudes and activities in Siberian elementary and secondary education between 1917-1931. Textbooks were used to reinforce communist values, to increase knowledge about industrial development and collective agricultural methods, and to orient students toward socially useful…

Contains a report of the application of Markov chain analysis to develop a model with analytical and predictive use for planning education for work. A flow model and the Markov chain theory are applied to data from the University of Khartoum. Advantages and limitations of the model are also listed. (CT)