A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

American Vocational Association

1997	The American Vocational Association's Recommendations for Investment in and Improvement of Vocational-Technical Education

California School Boards Association

1996	Increasing Rigor and Relevance: The School Board Connection

Cappelli, P. and Rogovsky, N.

1995	Skill Demands, Changing Work Organizations and Performance, (EQW Catalog Number WP32), University of Pennsylvania, National Center of the Educational Quality of the Workforce

Carnevale, A, Gainer, L. J., and Meltzer, A.S.

1990	Workplace Basics, The Essential Skills Employers Want, Jossey-Bass Publishers

Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD)

1996	Prescott C., Education and Work: Toward an Integrated Curriculum Framework, A Report of the Integrated System for Workforce Education Curricula Project

Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)

1996	Study of State Frameworks and Standards in Mathematics and Science

Federal Register, National Skill Standards Board

1996	Request for Comments on a Proposal to Establish a Voluntary National Skill Standards System, December 19, 1996, Vol.61, No. 245, pp. 67068-72

Institute for Educational Leadership

1996	Synthesis of Conversations with Skill Standards Pilot Projects

1995	Ananda, S.M. and Rabinowitz, S., Developing a Comprehensive Occupational Certification System

1996	Border B. and Losh,C., Occupational Skill Standards: State Development and Use Systems

1994	Dempsey, R., Resource Document, Occupational Information for the Skill Standards Projects

1995	Dempsey, R., Occupational Clustering for the Skill Standard System

1995	Dempsey, R., Skill Standards Information System -Volumes I-III

1995	Dempsey, R., Resource Document, Occupational Employment and Definitions

1996	Kaufmann, B. and Wills, J.L., Connecting One-Stops and School-To-Work

1995	Miller,J., Accreditation or Other Services: Appropriate Roles for Certifying Agencies, in Skill Standards: Making the Connection in the Education and Training Network

1994	Sheets, R.G., Using Skill Standards to Promote Quality in Workforce Development in the United States, (draft - not distributed)

1993	Wills J.L.,et.al., An Overview of Skill Standards Systems in Education and Industry, Systems in the U.S. and Abroad, Volume I

1993	Wills J.L., Rice, E., and Sheets, R., An Overview of Skill Standards Systems in Education and Industry, Systems in the U.S. and Abroad. Volume IV

1996	Wills, J.L. and Kaufmann, B., Developing and Sustaining Partnerships: Lessons Learned

Institute for Educational Leadership and Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS)

1997	Materials for use in the Institute for Educational Leadership Center for Workforce Development In Search of Commonalities Meeting

Levy, F. and Murnane, R.

1996	Teaching the New Basic Skills, Free Press, 1996

Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium,

1997	Pisapia, J. and Riggins, E., The Integration of Academic and Vocational Education, System Design

MPR Associates, Inc.

1996	Skill Standards: Concepts and Practices in State and Local Education, A Synthesis of Literature and Alternative Conceptual Frameworks

1996	Klein, S.G., Cuccaro-Alamin, S., Giambattista, J., Hoachlander, G., Ward, B. Applying the Standard: Using Industry Skill Standards to Improve Curriculum and Instruction, Lessons Learned for Early Implementation in Four States

1996	Klein, S.G., Cuccaro-Alamin, S., Giambattista, J., Hoachlander, G., Ward, B, Applying the Standard: Using Industry Skill Standards to Improve Curriculum and Instruction, Volume II, Case Study Summaries

National Center for Research in Vocational Education

1991	Grubb, W.N; Davis, G.; Lum, J;. Plihal, J, and Morgaine, C. The cunning hand, the cultured mind: Models for integrating vocational and academic education (Report No. MDS-234) , Berkeley, CA, 1991

1992	Grubb, W.N. & Stasz, C. Assessing the integration of academic and vocational education: Methods and questions, University of California, Berkeley

1992	Little, J. W., Two Worlds: Vocational and Academic Teachers in Comprehensive High Schools

1992	Oakes, J., Selvin, M., Karoly, L., Guiton, G., Educational Matchmaking: Academic and Vocational Tracking in Comprehensive High Schools

1992	Plihal, J., Johnson, M.A., Bentley ,C., Morgaine,C., Liang, T., Integration of Vocational and Academic Education: Theory and Practice

National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning and Assessment

1995	James L. Ratcliff and Associates, Realizing the Potential: Improving Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, University Park, PA

National Institute for Literacy

1995	Stein, S.G., Equipped for the Future: A Customer-Driven Vision for Adult Literacy and Lifelong Learning, Washington, DC

National Governors' Association

1995	Ganzglass E. and Simon M., Skill Standards: A Tool for State Workforce Development System Reform Final Report, Washington, DC

National Education Goals Panel

1990-95

various reports

National School-to-Work Office

1996	School-to-Work Glossary of Terms

National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee

1995	NOICC Administrative Memorandum No. 95-20, Proposed Clustering Hierarchy Based on the NOICC National Units of Analysis

U.S. Congress

1994	School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994, Public Law 103-239, 108 Stat 568, 1994

1994	Goals 2000: Educating America Act, Public Law 103-227,108 Stat 125, Title V, National Skill Standards Act of 1994

State Higher Education Executive Officers

1996	Rodriguez, E.M. and Ruppert, S.S., Postsecondary Education and the New Workforce

U.S. Department of Education

1996	National Center for Education Statistics, Synthesis Report, From Data to Information: New Directions for the National Center for Education Statistics, Washington DC, NECES 96-978

1996	Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Division of Vocational Technical Education, Tech Prep Concept Paper

U.S. Department of Labor

1991	The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, What Work Requires of Schools, A SCANS Report for America 2000

WestEd

1996	A Guide to Standards-Based Assessment Systems: The C-Tap Example, (draft)

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