Describes the Elliott Training Center in Greensburg, PA, which is a federally funded, state-of-the-art center operated by the Elliott Company. With the help of the National Alliance of Business, the Elliott Company was able to obtain federal funding. (JOW)

Criticizes Marxist author (Professor Edgley) for inconsistencies in his writings on the contribution of schooling to society. Edgley's failure to distinguish between the terms education and schooling leads to confusion. Also, his argument that failure in school leads students into manual labor is an overgeneralization. (KC)

Recommends that teachers of technical writing take into consideration how real world writing is produced and disseminated and how it is affected by communications technology. (JL)

Presents results of a survey of community-based organizations in which respondents indicated their organizations' career education goals, cooperative career education ventures, and advice to educators and businesses on successful collaboration. (SK)

Describes a unit of instruction that involves the rhetorical situation of an in-class corporation to give students experience in abstract and report writing. (AEA)

The failure of education to influence economic growth and social and political equity has raised serious questions about the practice of educational planning. Four planning activities (logistics, techniques, politics, and research) are examined and suggestions for changing the ways planners can influence the social order are made. (Author/SK)

Presents the results of a survey that was conducted to construct a broad picture of the writing of college educated people in general. (JL)

Offers the results of a survey taken at the College of Charleston in South Carolina indicating that faculty members, recent graduates, and employers all feel that college education in communication should stress training in oral communication skills. (JL)

Discusses the results of a survey of college graduates to determine the quantity of time given to writing during their workday and how much writing they produced during that time. Concludes that amounts of writing and writing time varied, depending on the discipline in which the respondent had majored. (HTH)

Urges the business writing teacher to go to great pains to show students that what seems an overwhelming job can be broken down into limited and understandable objectives and techniques. (HOD)

The way that employment outcomes of various educational programs are described has implications for educators, students, and employers. Standardization might be achieved by using titles of the U.S. Census and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. (Author)

As the secondary school has become an agent of mass education, it has been beset by complex problems, particularly in the identification of its educational role and its purposes as a social institution. Key features of the identity crisis in Australian secondary schools are described. (MLW)

Describes the relationship between education, career/job, aspirations, social group, and life styles in Danish society. Also examines a model constructed to ascertain the level of welfare of individuals in Denmark. (CT)

Criticisms commonly lodged against apprenticeships and vocational education are examined. Vocational education professionals and apprenticeship officials should cooperate in operating training programs. (CJ)

Reviews research and data on youth employment, particularly among minority groups, and discusses the roles of the school and the family. Holds that the success of future efforts to assist youth depend on (1) the commitment of resources to the disadvantaged; and (2) a multidisciplinary, multiagency approach to youth employment. (Author/GC)