Three alternatives to teacher evaluations offered are (1) initiate a cooperative school evaluation exchange program via video tape; (2) provide evaluation of teacher, administrator, and student by each other; (3) organize and develop teacher/administrator improvement through writing units, reports, authorship of professional articles. (DS)

Employment data are presented in this section of the annual report on the chemical industry. Data are provided for: sales per employee, employment by company, industry employment, work week, earnings, unemployment of professionals, and employment of women. (PR)

An analysis of new data concerning the processes by which workers seek jobs and employers attempt to fill vacancies in the Canadian labour market. (Author)

This article appears in Manpower Research Visibility, a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (MU)

Proficiency tests developed to measure skill levels of medical technicians. (Editor)

Describes government and industry efforts to avoid the loss of productive manpower due to alcoholism among both blue-collar and white-collar workers. (BH)

The community junior college, having none of the custodial responsibilities of secondary schools and little of the university's discipline-centered research commitments, could become the "peoples college with a crucial mission of fulfilling business and industry's job requirements and job aspirations of the people. (IR)

This article looks at some of the issues surrounding a potentially older workforce and reports on some of the creative solutions currently being advanced by employers, including (1) redesigning work schedules, (2) redesigning jobs, and (3) alternative assignments. (LRA)

On March 13, 1879, the "Salisbury Carolina Watchman" noted that the longest and most difficult tunnel in the struggle to lay a railroad line across the Blue Ridge Mountains has been opened. Convicts from North Carolina's new penitentiary built this transportation system and solved the state's need for a cheap labor force as well as the…