Focusing on the premise that vocational rehabilitation services for disabled veterans should not be a mandate but a right, the author describes success stories of four disabled Vietnam-era veterans who have achieved success in chosen vocations through vocational rehabilitation training. (BM)

This article presents lessons learned from an innovative employment and training program for dislocated workers. It provides specific information about program design and serves as a prototype for how social experimentation can be used by state and local governments. (Author/LMO)

The authors describe a retraining scheme designed especially for ethnic minorities, whose problems include gaps in basic education and a lack of awareness of opportunities. (Author/CH)

The author's company, Autodesk, Inc., developed and implemented a model industry-based training program for teachers of computer-aided drafting. (CH)

The author discusses the growing need to keep older workers in the labor force and the need for vocational education to address this population's need for retraining. He presents some of the problems and recommendations for older adult training programs. (CH)

A model technology education program, implemented in the Chicago public schools, featured public and private sector cooperation. Successful program elements included museum choice programs, teacher retraining and mini-conventions, and summer orientation sessions. (CH)

Explores the nature of some important technological changes occurring in the factory, as well as their impact on supervisor and worker roles, skills, and relationships. Discusses changes in production systems and technology, resulting changes on the plant floor, the need for retraining in the plants, and implications for employee skill…

The author discusses various aspects of training and development: formal job-related training and development, the behavioral/cognitive split in informal learning on the job, workplace training inside and out, costs and benefits of workplace learning, and forces accounting for growth and decline in the training and development function in…

This report stresses that postsecondary continuing education should be linked to the training and retraining of the work force, taking into account the demographic, technological, and economic trends affecting education and the workplace. (SK)

This document records the oral and written testimony of witnesses who testified at a Senate committee hearing concerning authorizing funds to states for worker reemployment and training programs. Witnesses included the following: Senators Claiborne Pell, Nancy Kassebaum, and Edward Kennedy; top officials from several major corporations; and…

National Laws and practices regarding paid educational leaves are reviewed based on questionnaire responses from sixty-one member states of the International Labour Office. (MS)

Schools that are frontline innovators have difficulty sustaining their leadership thrust, the writer contends, primarily because of difficulty in the broad areas of training, leadership, professionalism, and community. (Editor)

Occupational training programs for employed as well as unemployed workers at every skill level and public systems of continuous training and education for adults, expanding in three Western European countries, merit American attention. (MF)