| Click
here
to read and download Barbara's latest publication: The Role
of Context and Transferability in Learning from Promising Practices.
This report from the Midwestern Education to Workforce
Policy Initiative and the MHEC Promising Practices Series was
published by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact following
Barbara's presentation on the same topic to the MHEC's Policy
Summit, in Des Moines, IA, in November 2007. 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)
I
invite all interested parties to visit www.nationalOCC.org
for details on the organization.
To
receive NOCC newsletters, send an e-mail to me
and write "newsletter" in the message line.
I
was happy to visit McHenry County in northern Illinois on April
12. During the day, I presented on and discussed use of the
CRC with faculty at the community college, and I was pleased
to discuss the emerging global economies with local leaders.
The
second edition of the Career Readiness Certificate--An
Implementation Handbook, that I authored as a resource
for anyone contemplating the deployment of the CRC is now available
FREE through the NOCC web site (www.nationalOCC.org).
Look under Resources. For information about the book, please
contact me at bolinb@earthlink.net,
804-310-2552.
In
2006, ACT announced the release of new ACT assessments to measure
the expansion of the WorkKeys product line to provide further
insight into how job candidates will perform once they're on
the job. A set of Personal Skills Assessments will
optimize the match between an applicant, a job, and an organization.
For more information on the entire system, visit ACT's WorkKeys
site. There you can also view a presentation of the new suite
of Personal Skills Assessments.
For
those of us who have been strong WorkKeys advocates for many
years, and for consultants like me, who are working with states
and organizations to implement the Career Readiness Certificate,
this is tremendously exciting news. I congratulate the ACT team
for reacting positively to the demands of employers and for
getting these much-needed, legally-defensible assessments out
ahead of schedule. For all 46 states in the CRC Consortium,
these assessments will provide what many have considered the
missing component of a credentialing system.
More
information can be found on the ACT web site, www.act.org.
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