Best Practices in School-to-Careers: The Manufacturing Industry.

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National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC.

Academic Standards; Advisory Committees; Annotated Bibliographies; Career Awareness; Career Exploration; Case Studies; Change Strategies; Cooperative Planning; Demonstration Programs; Education Work Relationship; Educational Change; Educational Cooperation; Educational Opportunities; Educational Practices; Educational Resources; Employment Opportunities; Employment Qualifications; Entry Workers; Experiential Learning; Glossaries; Information Sources; Innovation; Internet; Job Skills; Job Training; Labor Needs; Linking Agents; Manufacturing Industry; National Organizations; National Standards; Nonprofit Organizations; Partnerships in Education; Professional Development; School Business Relationship; Secondary Education; Skill Development; Student Certification; Systems Approach; Teacher Education; Transfer of Training; Vocational Education; Work Experience Programs; World Wide Web

Connecticut (Hartford); Illinois; New York (Rochester); Ohio; Texas (Austin)

This booklet, which is part of a series demonstrating the scope of employer involvement in school-to-careers, highlights the efforts of six manufacturing employers and three "intermediary" organizations connecting workplace experiences to classroom learning for secondary education students. The introduction presents a series overview and lists the names, locations, and featured practice of the employers and organizations. The next sections examine manufacturing at the turn of the century; reasons why school-to-careers is an ideal strategy for addressing manufacturing skill needs; current manufacturing industry efforts to develop a skill standards and certification system; and how the employer participation model works with students and teachers. These employers and intermediaries and their best practices are profiled: (1) Caterpillar, Inc. (Peoria, Illinois); (2) The Timken Company (Canton, Ohio); (3) Kraft Foods, Inc. (Northfield, Illinois); (4) Maine Machine Products Company (South Paris, Maine); (5) Advanced Micro Devices (Austin, Texas); (6) Rochester Area Career Education Collaborative (Rochester, New York); (7) Eastman Chemical Company (Kingsport, Tennessee); (8) Connecticut Business and Industry Association (Hartford, Connecticut); and (9) Capital Area Training Foundation (Austin, Texas). The following items are also included: (1) an annotated list of eight organizations and resources; (2) a glossary; and (3) a discussion of steps to build on the National Employer Leadership Council's agenda. (MN)

2001

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