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The Goals 2000: Educate America Act establishes a National Skill Standards
Board to oversee the national program of industry skill standards. Over the
last two years, NCRVE staff at both Teachers College, Columbia University, and
MPR Associates, Inc., in Berkeley have carried out research on skill standards,
and we expect to launch a program of research on skill standards through four
coordinated projects starting in January 1995. In addition, during the last
several years, work at Teachers College, RAND, and Berkeley has been concerned
with changing skill requirements on the job.
A two-day conference on skills and skill standards will be planned and held.
We are proposing to organize a conference to help the work of the National
Skill Standards Board during its early stages by bringing to bear our
accumulated experience and the experience of others with whom we have been
working and interacting. The conference will serve two purposes: (1) a
reassessment of the skill standards movement, and (2) an analysis of what works
and what stands in the way of broader implementation. The conference will
evaluate the progress of the skill standards movement, sort out the lessons,
and help practitioners choose their future direction.
Written material from the conference will include both the preconference materials and a postconference report similar to the Institute on Education and the Economy (Teachers College) report, A Time for Questions: The Future of Integration and Tech Prep, published after the 1993 three-day summit on Tech Prep and integration.
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