Click here to read and download Barbara's latest publication: The Role of Context and Transferability in Learning from Promising Practices. This report was produced by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact as part of the Midwestern Education to Workforce Policy Initiative and the MHEC Promising Practices Series. The Career Readiness Certificate Consortium (www.crcconsortium.org) is featured as a case study in the report. For the latest news, numbers of certificates issued, and developments within the CRC Consortium, click here and look under News from the States.

Click here to download The Career Readiness Certificate: An Implementation Handbook (Second Edition, 2008), authored by Barbara Bolin and donated to the National Organization for Career CredentialingSM (www.nationalocc.org).

The National Organization for Career CredentialingSM is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to provide information to employers, corporations, governors, state agencies, training providers, career seekers, educators, and the public, on:

• Research on career credentialing opportunities and projects
• Evaluation (of skills training, curricula, marketing campaigns, etc)
• Development (of new curricula and credentials), and
• Dissemination of information (about best practices and results of career credentialing efforts)

You are invited to visit www.nationalOCC.org for details on the organization.

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The second edition of the Career Readiness Certificate--An Implementation Handbook is now available FREE through the NOCC web site (www.nationalOCC.org). Look under Resources. For information about the book, please call 804-310-2552 or send an e-mail.

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