[NIFL-WORKPLACE:3539] Re: 21st Century Skills Community Network web site

From: Ann Nickles (alnickles@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 13:35:55 EDT


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Barb,
Thank you for referring us to these sites.  I am relatively new subscriber 
and appreciate the information on this list.  I have been studying (as many 
of you obviously have) the NRS Guidelines published in April.  Can anyone 
give me an example of a short-term learning course that you are listing as 
"a Work-based Project Learner" and explain how you plan to assess the 
learner.  Many thanks.  Ann Nickles


>From: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu>
>Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov
>To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov>
>Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:3538] 21st Century Skills Community Network web 
>site
>Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:59:31 -0400 (EDT)
>
>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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