Occupational Education and Industrial Policy: Revitalizing the United States Economy. Occasional Paper 1.10.

The current United States industrial policy is not working in the new international economy. As jobs are increasingly exported overseas, the United States faces a major problem in revitalization of its economy. Occupational education has a major role in the revitalization of the country's economy through the upgrading of the training and retraining of a more productive work force. Two areas where occupational education curriculum can directly contribute to build a new competitive economy are through increasing achievement in basic skills and through instruction of students in understanding and use of human systems innovation in work environments. Development of human capital is the critical factor in rebuilding a competitive economy. (Author/YLB)