Describes Massachusetts' Employment and Training Choices Program that seeks to move people from welfare dependency to economic self-sufficiency. Program components are career assessment and planning, training and job placement, educational services, and support services. (JOW)

Describes design and implementation of a course for managers of the Weyerhaeuser Forest Products Company that emphasized leadership training to help managers face the company's changing focus. This four-week class focused on building unity of purpose and encouraging on-the-job application. (CH)

The United States is facing unprecedented competition in research, development, and manufacturing. To meet the challenge, we must improve our educational system and develop technological skills. The Trade and International Education Policy Reform Act, which includes the Technology Education Act, authorizes over $8 billion for education and…

While developed nations have been able to retrain their citizens in times of war and national emergencies, they seem to lack the resources, capacity, and commitment to retrain workers in periods of economic recession and unemployment. (SK)

The hospitality industry is one that is not adversely affected by the information revolution. As tourism is stimulated by government economic development efforts, opportunities in the food service and hospitality occupations are increasing, both for the young and for the unemployed who need retraining. (SK)

Describes an accelerated M.D. program for Ph.D.s in biological, physical, and engineering sciences that requires 18-24 months, and concentrates on clinical training. (Editor/AL)

A faculty program at the State University of New York allows tenured faculty in areas of low and declining enrollments opportunities to retrain in related disciplines with growing or high enrollments. (MM)

Teachers are being reassigned outside their primary specialities because of budget cuts, declining enrollments, school closures, and teacher layoffs. This article offers guidelines for developing a program, based on one implemented in Garden City (Michigan), that serves the retraining and emotional needs of reassigned teachers. (WD)

Describes the process of causal attribution as it is hypothesized to operate in learning environments, discusses the results of current attribution research, and examines the validity and utility of present approaches to attribution research--what is and what should be. (Author)

Employers, individuals, government, and educational institutions must deal with the issues raised as economic change displaces more professionals. Article notes that continuing education should provide appropriate counseling and retraining, advocate portable certification and worker choice, and promote collaborations among education, industry, and…

Eugene Lehrmann, vice-chairman of the board of the American Association of Retired Persons, makes a case for continuing contributions of retired adults in the work force, emphasizing the role of vocational education in the transition to a postretirement career. (SK)

Consists of four articles describing company and government policies concerning helping dislocated workers. Discusses (1) pre- and post-layoff services at General Motors, (2) placement services for geologists displaced by the collapse of the petroleum industry, (3) the Job Training Partnership Act, and (4) information services for laid-off…