If education is considered a nonwork activity, any change in the individual's work time will pose new challenges for educational policy. Trends in the relationship between work and nonwork time are presented. Topics include: work weeks, women workers, demographic changes, part-time work, shiftwork, technological changes and family living.

The recent report of the Grant Foundation Commission on Youth and America's Future, "The Forgotten Half," concerning the high school graduates who do not go to college is discussed, focusing on the value society places on a college education. (MSE)