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Greenwood, Katy B., Ed. – 1981
This yearbook contains 24 reports concerning the following seven challenges currently facing vocational education: new needs for job training, reexamining value bases, a growing network of vocational educators, reflecting on past effectiveness, the continuing challenge to meet individual and special needs, strengthening curricula and instruction,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Blacks, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
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Carrigan, Dennis P. – Public Libraries, 1993
Discusses the role of the library director as entrepreneur, defined as one who shifts economic resources from areas of lower productivity to areas of greater yield. The importance of this role during a time of austerity is highlighted, and six examples of directors acting as entrepreneurs are presented. (Contains 12 references.) (KRN)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Economic Factors, Entrepreneurship, Library Directors
Sunstein, Cass R. – Developmental Review, 2008
Adolescent risk-taking can be illuminated through an understanding of the development of the brain, of dual-processing theories, and of social norms and meanings. When adolescents take unjustified risks, it is often because of the weakness of their analytic systems, which provide an inadequate check on impulsive or ill-considered decisions. Social…
Descriptors: Risk, Student Behavior, Predictor Variables, Brain
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Herzlinger, Regina – Public Interest, 1994
Discusses how entrepreneurs have helped reduce costs in health care and examines the major changes in the health care system that are simultaneously lowering costs and increasing quality. The author then explains how current reform proposals might affect these entrepreneurial innovations. (GLR)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Entrepreneurship, Health Care Costs, Health Promotion
Andersson, Thomas; Formica, Piero – Industry and Higher Education, 2007
In the "participation age", emerging cross-border, transnational communities driven by innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives--in short, international entrepreneurial communities--give impetus to the rise of international public goods. With varying intensity, a non-voting international mobile public--still a small but an increasing fraction…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Economic Impact, Governance, International Cooperation
Cooper, Arnold C. – 1983
This paper analyzes the reasons behind the success and failure of various entrepreneurs and their small businesses. Presented first is an overview of the increasing role of entrepreneurship as a way of earning a living in the United States today and the different challenges and outcomes new small business generally encounter. In the first three…
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Business Administration, Business Skills, Career Education
Russell, Jack – Appalachian Heritage, 1999
Discusses how Appalachian institutions of higher education can assist the Appalachian Regional Commission in developing local community leaders, assisting entrepreneurs, and training people affected by welfare reform. Calls for institutions of higher education to collaborate with community, government, and business to meet the rising demand for…
Descriptors: Community Education, Continuing Education, Corporate Education, Economic Development
Cheit, Earl F. – 1975
Problems confronting higher education are considered from the perspective of state coordinating agencies. Ten obvious problems are as follows: adjusting to new enrollment patterns; attempting to close the cost-income gap; expenditures increasing more rapidly than income; supporting the capacity for research and advanced study; meeting new…
Descriptors: College Planning, Declining Enrollment, Economic Factors, Educational Finance