Matching yourself with the world of work: 2004 by Henry T. Kasper
Wouldn’t it be great if you could order a career like you order an entrée in a restaurant? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. But using self-assessment tools, such as the table provided in this article, can whet your appetite for planning a career.
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Early Childhood/Elementary Education: Similarities and Differences Found in What Youth of Color Need to Succeed
The Search Institute, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization, recently published a report entitled "Unique Strengths, SharedStrengths: Developmental Assets Among Youth of Color." The report finds that African American, American Indian, Asian American, Latino/Latina,White, and Multiracial youth all benefit similarly from experiencing more positive relationships, opportunities, and internal strengths(known as developmental assets) in their lives, regardless of their socio-economic status. At the same time, they do not all experiencedevelopmental assets in the same way.
These conclusions are based on analyses of Search Institute's aggregate data set of 217,277 6th- to 12th-grade youth (including 69,731 youth ofcolor) surveyed in 318 U.S. communities during the 1999-2000 schoolyear. At the core of the study are Search Institute's framework of 40 developmental assets, which are building blocks of healthy development that, when present, help young people grow up successfully.
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Noncredit Enrollment in Workforce Education: State Policies and Community College Practices
This report from the American Association of Community Colleges) examines (1) the extent to which noncredit workforce education and state policies play a role in workforce development, provide disadvantaged groups with access to higher education, and generate revenue for colleges; (2) how colleges organize their noncredit workforce programs to balance the tradeoffs between the desired flexibility of noncredit education and the integration of credit and noncredit programs; and (3) the extent to which noncredit workforce education provides recorded outcomes for students, such as transcripts or industry certifications, and the extent to which outcome data are available. Read this publication: http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Publications/Reports/Documents/noncredit.pdf