America's Future Work Force: A Health and Education Policy Issues Handbook

by Carl W. Stenberg

Overview

This expertly prepared policy issues handbook surveys the changing workplace and the failures of America's public health and education systems to prepare the future work force to compete at home and abroad. Carl Stenberg and William Colman analyze the key issues; review a mass of information, ideas, and insights about policy options that are available; and assess their pros and cons. Students, teachers, administrators, policymakers, and concerned citizens will find a wealth of clearly presented data along with careful analyses of the major proposals for reform. Figures, tables, short summaries, appendices, bibliographical aids, and a full index make this one-volume landmark reference accessible to researchers and readers at different levels and for varied use.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313279805
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/30/1994
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.38(d)
Lexile:	1620L (what's this?)

About the Author

CARL W. STENBERG, III, director of the Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, was formerly the executive director of the Council of State Governments and president of the American Society for Public Administration. He has written at length about intergovernmental management.

WILLIAM G. COLMAN, author of State and Local Government and Public-Private Partnerships: A Policy Issues Handbook (Greenwood Press, 1989), an award-winning academic reference book, has written at length on public policy issues and government management. Formerly, he was executive director of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.





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Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
The U.S. Labor Force: Present and Projected Economic, Social, and Fiscal Contexts
General Deterrents to Future Labor Force Employability of American Youth
Deterrents to Adequate Health Care
Public-Private Policy Options for Restructuring the U.S. Health Care System
Deterrents to Adequate Education
Policy Issues and Alternatives for Restructuring The U.S. Public Education System
Public and Private Sector Roles in Preparing America's Future Work Force
Appendixes
Bibliographical Essay
Index

Editorial Reviews

A policy issues handbook that surveys the changing workplace and the failure of America's public health and education systems to prepare the future work force to compete at home and abroad. Stenberg and Colman analyze the key issues; review a mass of information, ideas, and insights about available policy options; and assess their pros and cons. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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