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Peer reviewedWise, Robert I. – Education and Urban Society, 1981
Discusses implications of the involvement of business in public education. Considers the roles of business as (1) local citizen; (2) curriculum subject; (3) place of work; and (4) place to learn. Also examines requirements for effective school business partnerships and suggests that growing educational interest of employers promises a basis for…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textHobbs, Daryl – 1995
In the last decade, unprecedented rates of job growth and improvements in adult education were accompanied by increased numbers of children living below the poverty line and a decline in real income for most families. There are several possible explanations: (1) a kind of job growth that produces disincentives for a significant number of people to…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
