Attempts to bring a practical emphasis to the subject of sales training guidance for both newer and more experienced sales trainers. Explores the potentials, procedures, and possible limitations of applying a strategic planning process within corporate sales training functions. (CT)

Responds to Norman Langhoff's criticism of community college police education programs (JC 502 099), offering conflicting opinions on the role of the police and the functions and methods of police education. (JP)

Examines the Ball Corporation's method of employee training. Emphasis is on training on the production line: the use of a worker incentive program, a taskteam approach to efficient new plant startups and expansions, and a well-planned employee training program based on both technical familiarity and psychological attitudes. (CT)

The three major presidential candidates express their views on three questions relating to vocational education: (1) what role will vocational education play in the nation's goals; (2) what priority does federal support of vocational programs hold; and (3) how will you spend funds slated for state and federal employment and training programs? (CT)

Discusses the concept of nonformal education: age groups involved, institutions and agencies involved, attention given to the training of school dropouts and adult illiterates, the variety of techniques used in nonformal education, and the need for nonformal education. (CT)

The prospect of a job change for any reason creates a disincentive for a worker to invest in training that is specific to the current job, and therefore those who change jobs frequently may earn less over their life cycle than those who, other things equal, seldom change jobs. (Author/CT)

Reviews the utilization of community colleges as partners with CETA as exemplified by several California community college districts. The California experience indicates that the linkage is productive and can provide models. The system provides a testing ground about what works and what fails. (JOW)

A fall 1978 survey of journalism schools revealed some discouraging statistics ten years after the 1968 Kerner Report: little progress in training and hiring minority students for journalism careers has been made in the past decade, and enthusiasm for rectifying the inequities may be waning. (RL)

Describes several work training programs for youth administered by the Department of Labor, Office of Youth Programs. (SS)

The effects of training using tactile (physical guidance), visual (modeling), auditory (verbal instructions) prompting, and a combination of all three methods were compared by teaching 32 mildly to severely retarded vocational rehabilitation clients (18-50 years old) the construction of four assembly tasks. (Author)

Presents a plan for evaluating operations of New England Telephone Company training staffs. The background, the review process, the development of the operational review plan, and examples of problems discovered by the operational reviews are described. (Author/JEG)

Describes how a number of nonteaching jobs can provide practical benefits to the teacher unable to land a teaching job. (DD)

The system described handles testing and scoring, prescribes study activities, displays pilot progress, and provides data evaluating the effectiveness of the instructional materials. (MP)

Describes the bases for management services that would ensure that the larger business organizations of the future will receive an intake of highly trained men, or women, who by age 30 would have been subject to 15 years of specialist general management training, suitable for any form of business enterprise. (WL)

Describes five parts of a sales training program and offers six basic teaching techniques for presenting sales training materials.