This serial issue, which is devoted to the challenges that recent changes in the U.S. workplace pose for society and labor-management relations, contains nine papers focusing on the following aspects of building a new workplace for the 21st century: historical and current perspectives; workforce and workplace changes; education and training of the…

This publication presents two hearings on how to establish and maintain a streamlined, top quality, and efficient system of work force preparation in the United States and the role of the federal government in developing such a system. Testimony consists of statements and prepared statements, letters, and supplemental materials from individuals…

Home economists in vocational education are viewed as a diverse group of educators qualified to implement education for character concentrating on values that will remain with students in tomorrow's world of work. Educators should consider making a wholehearted commitment to teaching moral values and developing good character in students. A few…

These proceedings contain edited versions of the papers presented at a 1-day forum on aviation education that focused on the need for programs such as Opportunity Skyway, which introduces job possibilities in aeronautics to middle and high school students. In the foreword, Carlton Spitzer emphasizes the need for partnerships with the aviation…

Over the next 10-15 years, the work force will change significantly in composition. The numbers of minority youth, high school dropouts, and teenage mothers--less well-educated segments of the population--will increase. Youth unemployment will rise, although the total number of youth will decline. Women, with their needs for child care and…

Presentations and other materials are provided from the Asia and the Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) Planning and Review Meeting on Work as an Integral Part of General Education. The focus is on how education, through an orientation to work, could help to decrease the gravity of the problems of population…

This report presents a strategic plan for the South to extend its recent success in economic development to incorporate research, manufacturing technology, and new employment opportunities demanding highly skilled workers. The report first lists a set of goals and related objectives, and these are followed by two sections discussing (1) technology…

Francophone West Africa has committed itself to the goal of universal formal education as the most effective method of insuring rapid economic and national development. (Francophone West Africa is composed of Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea, Mali, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Niger, and Burkina-Faso.) The costly investments of limited fiscal resources in…

A description is offered of the far-flung operations of the world's largest private training system operating vocational and technical programs on an international scale; currently, 70,000 students are enrolled in 800 ORT institutions in 23 countries. (AJ)

Describes five patterns of student participation in vocational courses: (1) concentrators, (2) limited concentrators, (3) concentrators/explorers, (4) explorers, and (5) incidental/personals. Highlights some equity issues. (Author/CH)

Variability in programs and organization in the secondary schools affects the school experiences of students. Some of the major constraints facing educators in their attempts to develop a new secondary school program are described, and a program model for meeting student needs when they join the labor force is included. (JN)

Discusses benefit-cost analysis, describes two applications of benefit-cost analysis to human resources programs, evaluates difficulties in applying benefit-cost analysis to human resources programs, examines the effect of benefit-cost analysis on human resources programs and on public policy decisions. Also discusses applying benefit-cost…

The Dalton Plan, developed by Helen Parkhurst in the 1920s, completely restructured the secondary school day into subject labs, with students determining their daily schedules. Eschewing the usual bell-driven, factory worker model, this approach abolished traditional classrooms and homework and allowed students to select monthly contracts and…

William A. Brock, a member of President Bush's Advisory Committee on Education and chairman of the Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCAN), criticizes American society's lack of attention and support for public education. Principals must examine and evaluate the enterprise system, talk to its participants, and learn about helpful new…

A discussion of nonuniversity postsecondary education in Hungary, especially teacher training and postcompulsory secondary education, examines the relationships of labor force development, expansion, and a deteriorating educational system. New approaches to policy development and the emergence of the concept of institutional autonomy are…