Center
for Workforce Development Publications
Employers Talk
About Building a School-to-Work System: Voices From The Field
Published with the American
Youth Policy Forum, this publication offers a unique, front-line
look at why employers and intermediary organizations are engaged in
school-to-work systems and the "nuts-and-bolts" operational
strategies used by a cross-section of organizations, 1999.
What
Business Organizations Say About School-to-Work: An Analysis and
Compendium of Organizational Materials
Published with the American Youth Policy Forum, this
publication is designed as a companion piece to Employers Talk
About Building a School-to-Work System: Voices from the Field,
1999.
Making
the Connections: Employer Associations Actions for
School-to-Career
The publication was produced as a
part of the Manufacturing
Industries Careers Alliance (MICA) project and is the result of
a benchmarking exercise conducted with the projects Working Council.
The publication describes and guides employer associations in
school-to-career efforts. The publication will be part of the
regional workshops, which will be conducted in spring and fall 2000
with employer associations.
School Lessons/Work Lessons:
Recruiting and Sustaining Employer Involvement in School-to-Work
Programs
Included in the report is a set of
recommendations for local, state and federal system implementors as
well as for employer organizations. These recommendations cover a
range of issues, from learning plans to oversight functions, from
curriculum to workplace regulation, 1994.
$12.
Skill Standards in the United
States and Abroad
The authors have compiled a resource
that you can use as you create, revise or evaluate the need for
standards, 1993.
- Volume I: An Overview of Skill Standards Systems in
Education and Industry
An introduction to the issues,
terminology and practice. Includes recommendations for the
development of a U.S. system. $15.
- Volume II: Education-Driven Skill Standards Systems
in the United States
Explains how states have developed
standards for their education systems. Includes a state-by-state
inventory of skill standards processes, financing and leadership.
$15.
- Volume III: Industry-Driven Skill Standards Systems
in the United States
Profiles of existing skill
standards/certification systems managed by business, professional
and trade associations.$15.
- Volume IV: Skill Standards Systems in Selected
Countries
Describes skill standards systems in six
countries and the lessons those systems have for the development
of the U.S. system. $15. Save $5 -- purchase the
complete set of four volumes for $55.
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