Training to provide skilled workers for a large corporation's power plant to be built in Manatee County, Florida, is being planned in area vocational schools and community colleges in collaboration with the corporation. Several photographs illustrate the type of generator, turbine, and other equipment that will be involved in the plant's…

Educational and training functions carried out by AT&T valued at $700 million a year, are described. It is suggested that, at a time when students are clamoring for marketable degrees, academics might learn what corporations are seeking from the colleges and how they are preparing their own work force. (LBH)

The authors state that helping youth to be aware of the world of work has become an instrument of national policy throughout the world. They discuss different national approaches to education and training to provide job opportunities for economic growth. (MF)

In many foreign countries the employment service plays a larger role in helping young people move from school to work than it does in the United States. The article describes youth employment practices in Japan, Sweden, and Great Britain to illustrate the range of activities and organizational structures. (MF)

In Arkansas the five-percent allocation is known as VESA-CETA: Vocational Education Set-Aside Funds under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. The article describes various state-administered projects for dropouts, potential dropouts, and adults who are unemployed or underemployed. (MF)

Throughout American history, there has been prejudice, discrimination and violence against religious, ethnic and racial groups. Negative attitudes and practices have originated both from the citizenry and from the government in the form of immigration restrictions. Some examples are documented in this article. (Author/GC)

Students in a work orientation class made it plain they were more concerned with the state of the economy and its effect on job openings than on taking tests to ferret out their occupational interests. Topics researched and discussed as a result of this switch in class plans are offered for the benefit of other teachers and also as an indicator of…

The U.S. Office of Education Metric Education Program involves some 72 projects throughout 45 States and two territories. Vocational education is a critical part of this program to increase the number of school students, teachers, and other adults who are able to use the International System of Measurement. Some individual projects are described.…

The poor outlook for foreign language teaching is discussed, and ways of combating the trend through public relations and publicity efforts are presented. (HP)

Since children represent well over 50 percent of the world's population and are completely excluded from reporting, evaluating, and policymaking processes, an opening up of these processes to all young persons would in the long run represent a revolution of unimaginable proportions. (Author/AM)

Due to the difficulty of predicting the specific job-related impact of technological change and resource shortages, educational organizations should be less concerned with the development of specific work skills which may not be transferable. Interpersonal competencies should be stressed, and knowledge should be acquired in both the physical and…

Contrary to popular belief, two-year college students being prepared for entry-level work may not be at a disadvantage, relative to many liberal arts graduates with a bachelor's degree. Rather, they may be much more marketable than four-year college graduates. An extensive bibliography is appended. (JDS)

This article, based on a research project covering rural employment and youth programs, examines success and failure of various federal public job programs, concluding that the programs generally have not provided rural workers with needed employable skills. (MF)

Two key elements define the stability of the relationship between the school board and the superintendent and of the governance structure--vulnerability, the existence of, or lack of, checks and balances in the structure, and consensus, the agreement or lack of agreement on governance pattern and system goals. (Author/IRT)