Intended to inform administrators of vocational-technical education programs, and other interested persons, what the state of the art is in producing and using employment projections for educational planning purposes, this essay focuses on labor market concepts which should be used, but are now frequently abused, in the development and operation…

One of a series of sixteen knowledge transformation papers, this paper combines a glimpse at historical origins of the relationship between vocational education and employment training programs with an examination of current vocational education-CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) relationships. While research and development are…