Analyzes Marx's program combining schooling and work. Identifies Marx's moral, economic, educational, training-related, political, and tactical arguments for child labor. Contrasts Marx's views on education and work with progressive and Utopian standpoints. Reviews Marx's model of the factory school and his views on the regulation of child labor.…

Examines a survey of vocational guidance services in 10 Latin-American countries and concludes that insufficient importance is attached to the world in which the individual is to work. Official services do not have enough information about the labor situation or human resource needs. (JOW)

With data from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study investigates the direct and indirect effects of education on an individual's self-reported work hours lost due to illness. (Author/CT)

The author discusses the factors which must be considered for effective human resource planning. These factors include a grasp of regional reindustrialization, social and demographic changes, and social and economic priorities.

Describes the National Council on the Aging (NCOA)-Industry Consortium Retirement Planning Program, which consists of eight modules corresponding to eight major areas of retirement planning: life-style planning, financial planning, new careers, leisure time, health, interpersonal relationships, living arrangements, and community services. (SK)

Illiteracy among the formal working force has largely been eliminated: illiterate laborers are generally self-employed farm and home workers. Discusses the relationship between the work environment and the literacy environment as well as new directions for literacy research. (JOW)

Summarizes a career study report that indicates that journalism educators are more likely to succeed if they go through journalism school, get the Ph.D. degree, and go directly to work in journalism education than if they get the Ph.D. degree and work professionally in the media before starting a career in education. (TJ)

Linkages between the labor market and educational institutions are often less than optimal because institutions have too few business/industry contacts, supply and demand are mismatched, or curriculum development takes too long. International comparisons may contribute to understanding of vocational education and training configurations and…

School-to-work (STW) transition in the United States remains at an incubation stage despite the impetus of the School to Work Opportunities Act. Promising reforms such as cooperative vocational education and High Schools that Work need continued support if a comprehensive STW system is to be realized. (SK)

Students at a Miami school are participating in a real-world career-awareness program. Kids and the Power of Work (KAPOW) is a national network of business-elementary school partnerships that introduces youngsters to work-related concepts and experiences. Burger King volunteers are partnered with students from three grade levels to demonstrate…

Describes how faculty and staff at one university collaborated to provide students with career guidance. Discusses a lab which was developed to help students explore issues concerning a major and a career. Looks at lab design; staff, training, and marketing; ways to assist students; and offers a program evaluation. (RJM)

In joint venture partnerships between vocational education programs and employers, partners combine their resources to promote common interests such as the relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency of vocational-technical education programs. Partnerships are particularly appropriate for those employers unlikely to participate in youth…

Review of 15 tech prep programs in Illinois identified crucial elements influencing the teacher's role in school-to-work: (1) level of support and resources; (2) resolution of barriers to integration of academic and vocational education; (3) meaningful staff development; and (4) administrator support. (SK)

Interviews exploring the work experience of 11 boys and 13 girls in British high schools showed that they exhibited different levels of mature judgment and endowed their experience with different meanings. Most believed the placements' primary function was to prepare them for transition to work. The educative potential of work experience remained…

A slack labor market could affect the high school dropout rate by discouraging students from dropping out or by encouraging them to seek work to cover family job losses. A longitudinal study of 680 New York State school districts favors the former conclusion. A district's yearly 3.7% dropout rate might increase 2% with a 1% increase in the county…