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Stone, Vernon A. – 1987
A study combined and compared the results of five national mail surveys of commercial radio and television stations conducted at intervals from 1976 to 1986 by the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) to see how minority groups have fared in the news work force. Results indicated that in the 10 years studied, the minority share of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Broadcast Industry
Oliveira, Victor J.; Kuehn, John A. – 1987
Service industries, some manufacturing, and a concentration of retirees can provide a strong economic base in a rural area. Rapid growth of service businesses, especially wholesale and retail firms and other businesses related to tourism and recreation, attracted job-seekers to a 10-county area in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Attainment, Employed Women, Employers
Kenney, Martin – 1985
Even at this early date in the application of biotechnology to agriculture, it is clear that agriculture may provide the largest market for new or less expensive biotechnologically manufactured products. The chemical and pharmaceutical industries that hold important positions in agricultural inputs are consolidating their positions by purchasing…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Trends, Biological Sciences, Farmers
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. Div. of Adult and Vocational Education. – 1987
This guide was developed as a supplement to the Alaska Department of Education's industrial education curriculum. The special topics included in it focus on competencies from the curriculum for which materials were not readily available to Alaskan teachers and provide information that may not be sufficiently covered by existing curricula. Each…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communications, Competence, Competency Based Education
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Div. of Science Resources Studies. – 1988
Japan's postwar research and development (R&D) efforts have passed through several phases to bring the nation to what may be called "relative parity" with the United States. This document examines the characteristics of Japanese and U.S. R&D efforts. Topics compared include: national science resource patterns; science and…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Role, College Science, Comparative Analysis
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
This congressional report contains testimony given at the first of a series of comprehensive hearings on the impact of automation on employment and the workplace. Included among those agencies and organizations represented at the hearing were the following: the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers; the American Federation…
Descriptors: Automation, Competition, Computer Science, Employment Patterns
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1987
This congressional report includes testimony pertaining to the impact of the Reagan administration's policy of increased deregulation on American workers. Particular emphasis is placed on the impact that deregulation has had on specific occupations, industries (including plant closings), wage structures, and organized labor. The following…
Descriptors: Air Transportation, Building Trades, Construction Industry, Economic Change
Haywood County Consolidated Schools, Waynesville, NC. – 1985
This guide is intended to assist vocational educators teaching a course in wood technology to relate the skills addressed in science courses to a particular vocational education course. The guide consists of a curriculum alignment chart that cross-references vocational performance indicators to science skills/competencies. The science competency…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Coordination
Further Education Staff Coll., Blagdon (England). – 1984
This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students understand the operation of an assembly line, including safe working procedures. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in combination on- and off-the-job programs to familiarize youth with the…
Descriptors: Assembly (Manufacturing), Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Competency Based Education
Foster, Phillip R.; And Others – 1985
This handbook is intended to assist in the assessment and refinement of teacher preparation for industrial technology education in Texas. The first section contains preliminary information on the significance, development, and use of the guidebook. Provided next is an industrial technology teacher preparation assessment instrument that is based on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Association for Science Education, Cambridge (England). – 1981
Twelve readers have been written for use in a course developed by the Science in Society Project. Each reader (corresponding to a specific unit in the course) contains a number of short articles contributed by prominent figures in industry, the professions, the academic world, and in politics. Detailed suggestions on how to take advantage of the…
Descriptors: College Science, Energy, Environmental Education, Food
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1982
The eight working papers presented in this compendium were prepared for the National Science Foundation (NSF) as one means to assist the Office of Science and Technology Policy with preparation of the Administration's Annual Science and Technology Report to the Congress, 1981. They focus on specific aspects of three central themes directly related…
Descriptors: College Science, Cooperative Planning, Engineering Education, Federal Aid
Kistler, Kathleen M. – 1982
A study was conducted at the College of the Redwoods to analyze the fiscal, institutional, and instructional impact of the Redwood Employees Protection Plan (REPP) program, a federally funded retraining program for timber workers displaced by redwood park expansion. The study involved telephone interviews with 37 former and current students, 16…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Counselor Attitudes, Federal Programs, Job Layoff
Texas A and M Univ., College Station. Vocational Instructional Services. – 1980
Part of a series of eight student learning modules in vocational agriculture, this booklet deals with evaluation of livestock. It contains sections on carcass evaluation, the evaluation of performance and production, and the design of livestock production facilities. Each of the first two sections has a glossary, and all three conclude with a…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Animal Facilities, Animal Husbandry
McFerren, Margaret – 1984
A survey of the status of language usage in Tunisia begins with an overview of patterns of usage of Arabic, the official language, and its many dialects and forms, and French, spoken as a second language by half the population. A recent, official movement toward Arabization in official and other formal communication is outlined and the popular…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arabic, Armed Forces, Bilingualism
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