Healthy brain development relies on the quality of early relationships. Supportive relationships and parent-child conversations buffer stress; they contribute to the cognitive and emotional stimulation that developing brains need; and the quality of parent-child conversation is important even before young children are good conversational partners.…

This paper assesses the impact on economic growth of increased efficiency of public spending in primary and lower-secondary education. Higher efficiency in public spending in schools can bolster growth through two main channels. On the one hand, it can allow a transfer of labour from the public sector to the business sector at unchanged…

To accomplish their mutual objectives, corporations and institutions of higher education should review existing relationships and evolve new ones. There are both barriers and incentives to cooperation, and leadership is needed to act on the variety of options. (SK)

Vocational agriculture has avoided the narrow vocationist view in program design and operation. Vocational agriculture should promote socialization because, first of all, vocational agriculture is education, a social or people program. Achievement of human resource development should take precedence over other resource development. (SSH)

Describes three scenarios for the future workplace: (1) the Wave--high demand for smart products, high degree of connectivity, high ability of intellectual capital to attract financial capital; (2) the Current--high demand and connectivity, low ability to attract capital; and (3) the Wake--low demand and ability to attract, high connectivity. (SK)

Argues that human capital formation is the key to economic growth, that U.S. students are falling behind the rest of the World in math and science achievement because of the decline in the quality of their schooling, and that without better schools, other factors such as a quality higher education system may not sustain future U.S. economic…

Seeks to demonstrate that cooperative education is the epitome of human capital investment and, therefore, co-op should adopt the simple, relevant, and well-established classification strategy founded in economics. (JOW)

Human capital invests in new forms of physical capital, hence, human capital is key to economic progress. Lists eight attributes of human capital; for example, human capital cannot be separated from person who has it, and human capital is not visible. Human capital is necessary component when attempting to improve a person's income and welfare in…

In this article, the author discusses some of the most serious challenges--intellectual, institutional, and political--that he sees for the future of professional learning in education. He states that one common solution to these challenges would be for educators to begin to act more like professionals. One thing is clear about the early stages of…

The No Child Left Behind Act requires the states to test their students every year to determine how many of them have achieved proficiency in, among other areas, math, science, and reading. The law also requires that the states participate yearly in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which calls itself "the Nation's…

The efficiency and effectiveness of the nation's human capital pipeline has become a prime area of focus in the policy arena, spurred on by international data that show the U.S. lagging in high school and college completion. For policymakers, education leaders, and even students and parents, it is becoming increasingly clear that the transition…

Evaluating extension programs by the human capital approach involves observing changes in clients' output, input costs, time savings, and economic well-being. (SK)

The author explains that in recent years the output per hour has not been growing as fast in the U.S. as in some of the other industrialized nations of the world. He explains why this has serious consequences for our national economic well-being. (CT)

The revitalization of industry needs a substantial investment in work force training. Reauthorization of the 1976 Vocational Education Amendments should focus on how vocational education can meet the needs of students and of the economy. (JOW)

Recommends a dual strategy of investment in high wages/high technology and demand-led on-the-job skill acquisition, which will result in learning by doing at a higher technical level and relatively high productivity and return on investment. Offers this strategy as a replacement for costly publicly funded vocational training. (SK)