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Download full textWonacott, Michael E. – 2000
New ways of work and new workers and workplaces need education and training systems and occupational classification systems based on the skills that different occupations share rather than on the industry sectors to which they belong. This new approach to providing occupational information (career majors or clusters or pathways) corresponds to…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Career Education, Education Work Relationship
Ananda, Sri – 1998
The School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 mandates standards-based assessment and skills certification as an integral part of a comprehensive school-to-work (STW) system. An ideal STW assessment system would span elementary through postsecondary education and culminate in assessment of skills at the workplace. It would articulate in progressive…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills
Stickney, Eric M.; Alamprese, Judith A. – 2001
A process study was conducted between 2000-2001 in order to gauge the progress of 98 Connecticut institutions that received state school-to-career (STC) grants. Progress was measured against national averages. The following were among the findings: (1) grantees made significant progress in implementing fundamental STC components, such as career…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Career Academies, Career Awareness
