This article proposes a continuum of employment training options for students with special needs and identifies program quality indicators in the areas of assessment and the Individual Education Plan; the employment training program; community-based settings; provisions for on-site training and evaluation; and interagency cooperation. (DB)

Surveys psychology majors who graduated between 1967 and 1986 to investigate gender and cohort differences in current perceptions of undergraduate course usefulness, postbaccalaureate education, and occupational achievements. Results provide evidence for the male flight from, and the resulting feminization of, the undergraduate psychology major.…

Marvin Cetron's new Book, "Educational Renaissance," highlights the various disconnected attempts to heal schools and school systems. Merit pay and lengthening the school day and school year are crucial components of future economic success. Other predictions concerning students, teachers, higher education, school finance, families, and…

Uses data from the 1987 Household Survey to explore the relationship between educating and earnings in Ecuador. Results indicate a sharp difference in the premium associated with higher education between males and females (favoring males). Those with primary education are rewarded relatively more in the public than the private sector. Includes 14…

A blind individual offers career education guidelines concerning helping blind children make realistic vocational choices, providing job awareness, setting up work-experience programs, and developing special job-seeking skills. (DB)

The effects of relaxed college admission standards vary across students. A relaxed standard may raise the number of graduates but reduces nongraduates' productivity. The effect on the graduation rate is ambiguous, since "marginal" college attendees are less likely to graduate. A lower admission standard reduces performance among students exceeding…

Provides a perspective of geography in the workplace by analyzing what geographers currently are doing in private industry and in government-related jobs. Provides a general model of geographers in the workplace including "who is" and "who is likely to be applying geography in the future." (CFR)

Reports on a Delphi survey of 23 experts on what constitutes office information systems as a collegiate field of study within the domain of information systems. Appendices include a summary of issues and concerns, a list of reviewers and pilot participants, the Delphi panel, and the Delphi round responses. (JOW)

Describes a transition program at the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind that helps 18- to 21-year olds bridge the gap between high school and adult life. Through multi-agency collaboration, students can take advantage of a community college educational program and learn independent living skills. (CR)

Argues that the political nature of language and literacy is evident in the positioning of adult literacy instruction within the rhetoric of employment-related concerns, particularly competence-based schemata. Identifies assumptions regarding the degree to which the vision of participation, as measured by specific-language literacy, is shared by…

Reports statewide data on post-college earnings of students who last attended a California community college during the 1992-93 academic year. Presents analyses by age group, vocational major, and economic disadvantage. Discusses methodology, as well as policy implications, for using earnings data derived from administrative databases. Contains 14…

In Spring 1997, ITT Technical Institute, a private technical college, initiated a partnership with a Wisconsin high school based on offering ITT electronics courses to junior and senior high-school students. The program has benefited both students and teachers. Implementation steps are outlined. (MLH)

At a policy forum on transition, 30 participants addressed special education, rehabilitation, and the School-to-Work Initiative. Recommendations were made in the following areas: considering transition as a pre-kindergarten through age 16 issue, promoting schools' responsibility for all students, cultivating leadership, working effectively with…

The 1990s have seen an increase in vocational education enrollment rates. Business partnerships, the need for skilled workers, school-to-work programs, new delivery systems, the technology boom, and modernized programs account for the increase. (JOW)

The transformation of education for nation building, currently underway in South Africa, represents a political program driven by utility. Education should be concerned primarily with the self-empowerment of an individual person and, as such, not be sacrificed to demands of utility, which serves the narrow interests of the state and the economy.…