With minor exceptions, the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program is working well and is meeting its legislative mandates. The vigorous public-private partnerships that have emerged at the local community level and the strong leadership role assumed by private sector representatives on the State Job Training Coordinating Councils and Private Industry Councils are areas in which the JTPA has shown particular success. On the other hand, the Trade Adjustment Assistance program has not fulfilled its potential. Because adjustment assistance is preferable to protectionism, the trade assistance program should be modified to include more provisions for adjustment assistance, including worker adjustment assistance geared toward retraining and finding new jobs for dislocated workers. Recent federal efforts to provide increased educational and transitional services for disadvantaged youth deserve praise, although the program could be strengthened by making a few technical changes in programs. (Appendixes include summaries of sponsored research and selected staff papers and comments of the National Commission for Employment Policy on the reports of the National Council on Vocational Education.) (MN)