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...Adolescents would be graduated a corresponding year earlier, moving on at the age of 17 to jobs, college or a year off to reconnoiter their futures. It is a proposal of such staggering simplicity that it is already meeting opposition. Teachers object that it could require them to retrain in order to teach younger children. Blue-collar parents worry that the plan would throw even more jobseekers into competition for already scarce work. In fact, however, the idea of an accelerated curriculum has been endorsed by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education (TIME, Dec. 7), and is under consideration...
Last week, after his second recent meeting with industry, professional and university representatives on the unemployment crisis, President Nixon announced a $42 million program, out of existing funds, to retrain and relocate the unemployed. The program, said Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson, reflects Nixon's determination to keep the U.S. "in the forefront of technology...
...work specialists. The National Science Foundation is sending 15 unemployed scientists and engineers in the San Francisco Bay Area back to school to learn computer technology, a field where there is still a manpower shortage. The Housing and Urban Affairs Department is joining with the Labor Department to retrain up to 2,000 unemployed engineers this summer for work on urban problems. Still, scientific leaders think this is not enough. The president of the American Chemical Society, Dr. Melvin Calvin, for example, wants direct federal salary support ($10,000 a year) to help the jobless as they start new careers...
...them to work, the Government will have to help retrain many of the jobless veterans of aerospace and help redirect others into different industries. Washington is doing little of that. Its unimaginative performance augurs poorly for the even larger conversion to peacetime that will come later. At M.I.T. and the University of California, HUD has opened about 25 cram courses to prepare technologists for public-service jobs. One of the few programs that provide extensive retraining is run at the University of California at Irvine, where participants study for a master's degree in environmental engineering. But only 34 people...
...balanced application of science and technology on many fronts." If this balance is to be achieved, the ingenious aerospace chiefs have to find ways to direct more of their skills to down-to-earth problems, and the Government will have to scratch up more resources to retrain their workers...