The proceedings of a hearing held in New York City before the House Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities are provided in this document. Testimony focused on two proposed bills related to the creation of a volunteer national service program: the Voluntary National Youth Service Act and the Select Commission on National Service Opportunities Act…

Author draws our attention to the seiousness of the Coleman Report on Youth and hopes the report will stimulate the nation to seek new solutions to the problems of its young people. (Editor/RK)

Proceedings are presented of hearings before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources on the Youth Employment Act, 1980. The act is designed to provide an effective and efficient youth employment program designed to improve career opportunities for youth between the ages…

Dropout-prone students at two Oakland high schools were identified and divided into control and experimental groups at both schools. Experimental group students received special counseling attention during the year. Attempts were made at providing them with part-time jobs. No significant differences in dropout rates between the experimental and…

During the past 2 years state laws lowering the age of majority to 18 and other statutes that confer some majority rights on minors have considerably altered the status of young people in our society. In 7 states, the age of majority has been lowered in an effort to relieve young people of the minority disabilities originally intended to protect…

Author believes that the rise of the Manpower Services Commission means youth workers must drop their mystifying community labels and reassert the specialist nature of their jobs. In the wake of the State giving up the commitment to youth service, examines where youth work will be done on the future. (Editor/RK)

Discusses youth employment and unemployment in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States; the trends, causes, consequences, policy goals, and specific measures needed to resolve problems. (SL)

Describes and assesses major trends in the labor market fortunes of key teenage subgroups in the U.S. during the 1980s. The need for a national policy response to the problem of pervasive joblessness among poor youth is greater in 1986 than at the beginning of this decade. (LHW)

Considered the proper meaning of compulsory education and the right of children to make their own decisions. (RK)

A brief description of a part-time job placement service organized in one school system for students is given in this article. (JC)

Describes the numerous possibilities for adult education by youth in order to aid the development of Nigeria. (AN)

This article reviews the literature on community service and activism, particularly in youth, using the theoretical approach provided by an identity projects framework. This framework allows for an examination of the contextual and experiential factors that contribute to the emergence and maintenance of an identity project of service or activism.…

Author suggested that we need to know more about the nature, extent, and distribution of youth patterns to which the Coleman report addresses itself and that we want to look more closely at the political feasibility of its suggested remedies. (Author/RK)

Author questioned the Coleman Report and zeroed in on the peculiar contradiction s between the specific analyses of the life circumstances of young people and the report's general diagnosis and recommendations. (Editor/RK)

Author described several differences among the conditions of young people in the United States, China, and Israel and suggested that the Coleman Report asked more of our own culture than can be attained. (Editor/RK)