Discusses 17 years of growth and development at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical Institute in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. (JOW)

Reviews vocational education's role in private-sector retraining programs, reducing unemployment, attracting new industries, and developing human resources. Briefly discusses recent federal initiatives toward economic development and their relationship to vocational education. (LRA)

The author describes how the Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) public school system changed its mainstreaming vocational program for educable mentally retarded students from child care to care-giving. Illustrating the change model, the child care curriculum was modified to include care of the aged and the retarded. (MF)

A look at the coming decade's labor patterns and values indicates that educational establishments will have to compete in the marketplace, must increase life-skills curricula, exploit the power of information technologies, and develop a new perception of education's role, both as a lifelong service and as a public utility. (MF)