The basic educational requirements desired by businesses of new employees and the relationship of the computer to their work were determined through site visits to 17 businesses. Employers wanted microcomputer proficiency, excellent communication skills, analytical and interpersonal skills, and background in word and data processing and…

Presents a corporate official's 12-point plan for the private sector to provide immediate support for public education in technology. Industry's role in stimulating parents, in curriculum development, and in providing financial support are considered. Other areas/issues considered are upgrading graduation requirements, basic building blocks of…

The Columbia-Willamette Skill Builders Consortium was formed in early 1988 in response to a growing awareness of the need for improved workplace literacy training and coordinated service delivery in Northwest Oregon. In June 1990, the consortium received a National Workplace Literacy Program grant to develop and demonstrate such training. The…

Five papers and 14 forum/workshop summaries from the 1982 Creative Responses to Changing Realities Conference are presented. The following papers and authors are included: "Global Interdependence: From Exploitation to Partnership" (Denis Goulet); "Our Changing World--New Curriculums and New Delivery Systems" (Donald Leu); "Education and Business:…

This volume is composed of 11 source documents which report activities sponsored by the National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, deliberations of a subgroup of the National Science Foundation Engineering Advisory Committee, and a paper prepared for the Pfizer Corporation. The first four…

Offering long-range planning as a means of controlling educational problems and opportunities, this guide presents procedures for school district planning as well as relevant information concerning demographics, politics/finance, teaching staff, curriculum, computers/technology, and tomorrow's jobs. Among aspects of planning covered are…

The Casco Bay Partnership includes the University of Southern Maine (USM) and seven businesses in greater Portland, Maine, that range from large multinational corporations to small, family-owned businesses. During a 3-year project funded by a National Workplace Literacy Program grant, the partnership designed and delivered workplace basic skills…

Workplace literacy projects were established at Warn Industries, a winch and hubcap maker, and Oregon Cutting Systems (OCS), a producer of cutting edges supplying the timber industry by Clackamas Community College (Oregon). At Warn, project staff developed functional context materials, delivered instruction to a math class, and implemented a basic…

The findings of a literature review of business education in Great Britain, the United States, and Canada were as follows: business education will be in greater demand in the high school and it will be extended downward into the elementary school and upward into the postsecondary institutes, especially in the areas of keyboarding and computer…

A study explained the state-of-the-art uses of computers in vocational education in Ohio. During the study, assistant directors in the division of vocational education were asked to identify state-of-the-art uses of computers in schools and program service areas based on criteria for vocational computer and microcomputer literacy within the areas…