The authors suggest that it will take a new dimension of teamwork under the Perkins Act to meet the challenges of the coming decade. Vocational education can be improved, they say, by close collaboration among the new state councils on vocational education, the state boards, the newly required technical committee, and a host of other groups. (CT)

Describes the newly formed national and state occupational information coordinating committees, under the Education Amendments of 1976 and earlier legislation, which are charged with implementing an occupational information system for the planning and operation of state training and employment programs and with coordinating occupational…