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

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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.

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This comprehensive volume provides readers with important facts on the status of educational and health services for young people in the United States, analysis of reform proposals, and prescriptions to make the work force more competitive. Non-specialists and specialists alike will find this book a handy source of information and analysis.-National Civic Review
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"Upper-division undergraduate through professional."-Choice
"This comprehensive volume provides readers with important facts on the status of educational and health services for young people in the United States, analysis of reform proposals, and prescriptions to make the work force more competitive. Non-specialists and specialists alike will find this book a handy source of information and analysis."-National Civic Review

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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. Is the above one book or two