Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id PAA15448; Fri, 19 May 2000 15:01:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 15:01:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <v04210105b54b3ae6c972@[146.186.96.31]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:3538] 21st Century Skills Community Network web site X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2478 Lines: 60 Dear subscribers, I was cruising through the NIFL's Workforce Education Special Collection http://slincs.coe.utk.edu/special_collections/workforce_education/ today. If you haven't been there, make the trip. I found some interesting links and resources. One I visited was the 21st Century Skills Web Page, including some good sources of data and ways to measure results of workforce development programs among many other items. The web pages URL is http://www.skillsnetwork.gov/index.cfm The following is an excerpt from the web page: Welcome to the 21st Century Skills Community Network web site -- a place for community-based organizations to learn from each other as they help American workers and their families gain the skills, tools and knowledge needed to succeed in the 21st Century economy. The 21st Century Skills Community Network can be traced back to Vice President Gore's Summit on 21st Century Skills for 21st Century Jobs, http://www.vpskillsummit.org. At the Summit, the Vice President convened a Leadership Group from business, organized labor, education, and government and asked them to develop a set of recommendations for their peers that would help ensure a prepared and thriving workforce in the 21st century. The Leadership Group report, Skills for a New Century: A Blueprint for Lifelong Learning, http://www.vpskillsummit.org/blueprint, outlined five broad recommendations to provide adults the skills they need and employers the skilled employees needed to remain competitive. The primary recommendation was to build and expand community-based partnerships that cross multiple sectors and focus on 21st Century skills. The 21st Century Skills Network is one result of those recommendations. The Skills Network will connect community-based partnerships and relevant, federal agencies to enhance education, skills, training and lifelong learning for adults in local communities. This web site, http://www.skillsnetwork.gov, is where the partners post best practices, significant issues, government resources and effective strategies for reaching goals and measuring results. The web site is open to the public. ****************** Barbara Van Horn NIFL-WORKPLACE List Co-Moderator Assistant Director Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy College of Education The Pennsylvania State University 102 Rackley Building University Park, PA 16802-3202 Phone: 814-863-3777 Fax: 814-863-6108 E-mail: BLV1@PSU.EDU
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