So you've heard of the Work Readiness Credential.  
Or is it called the National Work Readiness Credential?  
Wait! Maybe that was the Career Readiness Credential you were thinking
of.  
Or the Career Readiness Certification?  Workforce Skills Certification? 

If this is all just too confusing, but you really need to know, join in
the discussion next week on our Workplace Literacy Discussion List.
Several guests have agreed to share their expertise and answer
questions, and there's a great new resource out online that identifies
and then compares and contrasts the various work readiness certificates
that are out there. The resource, the work of Norma Rey-Alicea and Geri
Scott, is "A Survey of Selected Work Readiness Certificates" and you can
download it from http://www.jff.org/Documents/WorkReadiness.pdf .  Norma
and Geri, the authors, are two of the guests who have agreed to answer
questions in helping us understand the purposes and issues surrounding
work readiness certificates.  

Other guests have first-hand experience with and knowledge about the
three most widely recognized work readiness certificates: 

Louis Soares, Executive Director of the National Work Readiness Council
Lansing Davis (Lanse), Senior Policy Analyst with the NJ State
Employment and Training Commission, the State WIB.
Judith Titzel, Adult Education Specialist, RI Adult Education
Professional Development Center Jane Eguez, Director of Program
Planning, CASAS Melissa Dayton, Workforce Program Specialist, CASAS
Traci Lepicki, Project Coordinator, Ohio's Career Readiness Credential,
The Ohio State University Center on Education and Training for
Employment Adrienne Glandon, Ohio's Career Readiness Credential, The
Ohio State University Center on Education and Training for Employment

Look for additional information and resources on the Workplace
Discussion List soon to give you additional background information and
resources.  If you want to invite friends and colleagues to join us for
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they will want to stay with us!)

Donna Brian, Moderator
Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Center for Literacy at The University of Tennessee djgbrian at utk.edu