A vocationally-related adult basic education curriculum would include diagnostic testing, identifying academic skills, group planning, availability of instructional materials, parallel teaching of office procedures, and team teaching. (DS)

A successful program must be able to offer participants the jobs which they consider superior to their presently available alternatives. (Editor)

Industry-taxed training system shows sturdy growth. (Editor)

The benefits and problems of the trimester plan are explored, with conclusion that it is extremely difficult to maintain a summer student body and faculty equal to the spring and fall terms. (IR)

Discusses the results of the Training and Technology (TAT) projects and their implications for vocational education, the employment process, and coordination of school and industry. (SB)

Explores the implications for the educational preparation of home economics workers at all levels and the problems facing the profession in developing to its fullest potential. (Editor)

Argues that the failures of compensatory education are due to an unwillingness to acknowledge the depth of deprivation of the child and an inability to focus upon him the massive resources necessary to compensate for deprivation. Offers a new concept which wi ll depict the need for compensatory programs. (DM)

Describes and diagrams the nursing programs of Long Beach City College which include provisions for upward and lateral mobility in the core curriculum, where all nursing students start their study with common nursing courses regardless of the licensure they hope to achieve. (Editor/SB)

Reports four experiments conducted to test the effect of type of reward and source of social reinforcement on task performance and self image of black working-class adolescents. Manpower Research Visibility is a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (SB)

Comprehensive manpower planning at the national level to meet manpower needs is impossible because there is no single agency authorized to affect such a planning effort. (SB)