Describes three educational programs operating on the Navaho reservation: the Rough Rock Elementary School, the Ramah High School, and the Navaho Community College. (JM)

Latin American history is an untapped resource for studying the synthesis of culture, the underdeveloped world, and social change. (VW)

The problem and potential of geographic factors, social institutions, power structure, population pressures, agricultural production, manufacturing, material productivity, Alliance for Progress, are discussed. (VW)

Reports on a study of a pre-cooperative (the Sidi Saad pre-cooperative, Province of Tunis) as an environment in which a functional literacy program, integrated with socioeconomic development, was to be developed. (EB)

Describes the Workers' Occupational Upgrading Program, which was instituted to train the manpower necessary for Spain's economic growth. (BH)

An evaluation of the effects of educational expansion on economic output between 1890 and 1960 shows (1) expansion at the secondary and doctorate levels was positively related to economic output since 1933; and (2) no effect of these or other levels of schooling on economic output before 1928 was manifested. (AOS)

Nettels' text, "The Roots of an American Civilization: A History of American Colonial Life," published in 1938, has enjoyed the widest sales of any text ever written on the colonial period. Never losing his concern for economic development, Nettels' interests in the 1940s and 1950s shifted to the American Revolution. (RM)

Briefly discusses six articles dealing with the role of psychology and psychological research in improving economic productivity. Considers: (l) effects of drug abuse and alcoholism and of psychological programs on employee productivity; (2) methods for analyzing the economic impact of organizational improvement programs; and (3) psychologists'…

Examines how multinational corporations, international institutions, and banks affect global economic development. It is argued that multinational corporations are acquiring increasing amounts of noneconomic control of developing countries by encouraging their financial and economic dependence. (AM)

Reports on Long Beach City College's recent economic impact study. Results show an increased return of personal incomes into the economy, added retail sales for local merchants, and job creation and maintenance. Concludes colleges are resources for positive economic growth and the reduction of unemployment and poverty. (DMM)

Describes the development of rural Siberian polytechnical education during the 1920s. To fulfill the demands of economic development and the need for relevant education, polytechnical education centers were set up to train students in hunting and fishing, agriculture, skilled trades, and meteorology, as well as teaching, social work, and…

The Solar Demonstration Project provides Native American communities with both energy and jobs. Available from: P.O. Box 41048, Los Angeles, CA 90041. (CM)

Britain and Japan are shown to be two pioneers of industrialism who took different roads to power and wealth. Each society imbues an institution with its own values and meaning--the Japanese with the spirit of participative self-fulfillment, the British with acquisitive individualism with concern for one's neighbor. (MLW)

Reviews vocational education's role in private-sector retraining programs, reducing unemployment, attracting new industries, and developing human resources. Briefly discusses recent federal initiatives toward economic development and their relationship to vocational education. (LRA)