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Zicht, Barbara, Ed.; And Others – Elementary Economist, 1981
Providing teacher background on the concepts of productivity and capital goods, this document presents 3 teaching units about these ideas for different grade levels. The grade K-2 unit, "How Do They Do It?," is designed to provide students with an understanding of how physical capital goods add to productivity. Activities include a field trip to…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Capital, Concept Teaching, Economics Education
Montgomery Coll., Rockville, MD. Office of Institutional Research. – 1983
A human capital study was conducted at Montgomery College to assess the rate of return on educational expenditures by contrasting the future lifetime earnings of people with less education with that of people with greater educational attainment. The study assessed the costs of education (e.g., for tuition and fees, books and supplies, foregone…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Economic Research, Employment Patterns, Financial Support
American Council on Education, Washington, DC. – 1981
These materials from a forum to discuss education-work issues include summaries of three working groups and excerpts from four presentations. General conclusions reached during the 2-day forum appear first. They address the need for (1) joint remedial efforts between business and higher education, (2) shared education and business responsibility…
Descriptors: Business, Career Education, Continuing Education, Cooperation
Cupples, Michael Wayne; Tamburello, Gaspare B. – 1989
Significant concepts and emerging implications of technology, development of human capital, and visionary leadership can be applied to the design of vocational, technical, and occupational education to enable such education to meet the needs of today's information and service society. People without functional skills will be the technology…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Improvement, Functional Literacy, Human Capital
American Society for Training and Development, Alexandria, VA. – 1988
Economic competitiveness is today's most critical issue. Keeping the United States competitive in the world marketplace means the difference between a rising standard of living for everyone and the disappearance of what is taken for granted as a way of life. Developing human capital is the route toward successful competition, as some examples…
Descriptors: Competition, Corporate Education, Economic Development, Educational Needs

McNamara, Kevin T.; And Others – 1984
Recent studies of rural manufacturing employment have presented conflicting evidence about the relationship between human capital and local economic development at a time when competing claims for local investment funds could potentially undermine support for public education. The purpose of this paper is to: (1) develop the conceptual linkage…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Factors, Educational Economics, Employment Opportunities
Dayrit, Ruben S. – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1975
The general objectives of agriculture education in both the elementary and secondary schools in Ponape District are to develop interest in agriculture among students and to provide practical and technical skills in growing crops and raising domestic animals. (Author)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education
Clayton, Gary E. – 1982
The purpose of this paper is to assist vocational educators at all levels as they make long-range plans and policies that have an impact on vocational education programs and their relationship to worker productivity. In the first section a study of worker productivity analyzes trends and then measures and analyzes the determinants of productivity.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Human Capital, Job Enrichment, Management by Objectives
Johnson, Donald H., Jr. – 1981
This paper discusses a survey undertaken in 1981 to investigate the influence of education on occupational realities and expectations of high school graduates in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The specific focus of the survey was on the effect of high school graduation on the young indigenous population's mobility expectations, pursuit of higher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Developing Nations, Educational Background, Educational Mobility
Hansen, W. Lee; Weisbrod, Burton A. – 1967
A workshop on the Economics of Human Resources was initiated in 1966, at the University of Wisconsin to provide a vehicle for stimulating research by both faculty and graduate students and to provide a medium for disseminating the latest research findings of outside scholars, University of Wisconsin faculty and graduate students. This document is…
Descriptors: Course Content, Economic Development, Economic Research, Economics
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1965
The report was comprised of 22 papers presented by US and foreign home economists at a conference held in July 1965 at Iowa State University. The meeting was planned to serve the interests of those who train foreign students in US universities and those who plan to work in home economics programs abroad. The international aspects and priorities of…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Family Life Education, Higher Education, Home Economics
Snodgrass, Marjorie P. – 1968
Some 1,595 documents are listed in this bibliography in an attempt to bring together, from all areas of the Federal Government and throughout the United States, valuable information on the economic development of American Indians and Eskimos. In the document, "economic development" is considered to mean individual and collective efforts (both on…
Descriptors: Agriculture, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Art Activities
Minshall, Charles W.; And Others – 1971
The overall objective of this 4-phase study was to provide the Four Corners Regional Commission with an evaluation of industries best suited for the region. In order to satisfy this objective, 100 industries and products were identified which have the highest potential for development in the total region, as well as in specific subregions. The…
Descriptors: American Indians, Community Responsibility, Demography, Employment

Moock, Peter R. – Teachers College Record, 1978
Education is considered by some to be so important a determinant of individual well-being in American society that an understanding of the reasons for differences in the propensity to invest in education is crucial to the development of sound and equitable social policy. ( MM)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Educational Experience, Educational Status Comparison

McMahon, Walter W. – Economics of Education Review, 1987
Discusses the overall efficiency of investment in primary and secondary education and technology transfer via investment both in physical capital and higher education in 30 of the poorest African countries. A high (21.2 percent) rate of return to investment in primary and secondary education was found. Includes six tables and 20 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education