The author states that education is the primary delivery system for the labor market but that there still exists a need for a comprehensive community-based education-work program. He describes the industry-education council concept providing system-wide linkages between educational and community resources and discusses industry-education council…

Although new problems are encountered as field experience programs grow larger, the basic principles of assuring educational quality remain the same. One large field experience program, the Washington Center for Learning Alternatives, and the method of educational quality control developed by that program, are described. (Author/SF)

The author proposes that the academic/vocational dichotomy in American schools be replaced with the concept of "functional education," in which business, secondary schools, and colleges cooperate to provide more flexible and realistic training that will benefit young people and will provide business with the educated workers it needs. (SJL)

Results of a national survey of education graduates show that they are involved in a wide variety of settings. Their roles are diverse, including administrative, counseling, teaching, research evaluation, and curriculum development. (Authors/CJ)

Describes the student-centered approach to cooperative education at Montclair State College which evolved in response to a diverse student population. (LRA)

Vocational education is a must if the United States wishes to compete with the Europeans and Japanese. It cannot be relegated to secondary status in schools. The federal government must play a major role in seeing to a balanced approach to the economic and social goals of vocational education. (CT)

Supports a philosophy of education that requires that the school recognize diversities in students' intelligence, motivation, interests, talents, and backgrounds and that the schools address this diversity by providing a curriculum responsive not only to the students' needs, but also to the needs of the society and economy. (Author/JD)

The author discusses how the changing structure of American society and economy is affecting the career expectations and behavior of different groups of young people and the implications of these changes for the educational establishment. (Author/KC)

The relationship between education, particularly higher education, and work is traced through American history and it is suggested that education should take a role similar to its historic one--a limited role that does not attempt to provide adequate vocational training for society. (JMD)

Important issues addressed regarding the education of workers include the type of worker groups to be educated; their different educational needs (for work or leisure); the corporations, unions, and public institutions involved in education and their purposes; and the types of programs offered. (JMD)

The appropriate response of higher education, and liberal arts colleges in particular, to demands for career training in addition to liberal arts studies is addressed. Cooperative efforts with trade unions to serve the educational needs of organized labor are suggested as a first step. (JMD)

Through its own Education and Training Center, and in cooperation with neighboring colleges, Tektronix, Inc. of Oregon, is able to offer employees two basic types of educational programs: the in-house program and the college degree program. (JMD)

The author notes some elusive learner outcomes that have received little attention in career education evaluation, principally skills in adapting to social change and in seeing clear relationships between school learning and future careers. He explains his experiences in evaluating these elusive aspects in the Georgia Governor's Honors Program.…

Two school districts, Kennewick School District WA and Salem-Keizer School District OR, are leveraging their food service contractor's resources to establish work-based courses stressing sophisticated management, culinary, and life skills. Under these instructional partnerships, the contractor, cooperating with school officials, develops the…

A study, based on techniques developed at the University of Oregon, explored the impact of special education on the education and postschool outcomes of 528 students with disabilities who had exited from special education services in Arizona. The majority were working full time and earning an average of $5.00 an hour in jobs that relatives or…