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Education and Job Training Resources: National Center for Research in
Vocational Education
Works to strengthen school-based and work-based learning. Resources on this site include electronic discussion groups, information request queries, a listing of vocational education locations, and legislative updates on vocational education. - CORD
A non-profit organization dedicated to furthering excellence in education, focuses on projects and programs that prepare students for the technological workplace of the future. - SCANS/2000:
The Workforce Skills Website
The SCANS 2000 Center is an interdisciplinary research group at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies. SCANS 2000 works on projects related to school to work, welfare reform and educational reform to help prepare workers to compete in the international economy of the 21st century. - Job
Corps
Job Corps every year provides residential-based education and job training to more than 66,000 economically disadvantage youth ages 16 to 24. The over 100 Job Corps centers across the country offer training in 10 to 20 career choices and academic curriculum, including high school credentialing. (Also see fast facts on Job Corps here.) - National
School to Work Learning Center
The School-to-Work, or School-to-Careers, movement is developing a new, more effective form of education for the evolving global economy that links learning and earning. Its goals are to provide better education, better employment prospects, adult role models, and multiple postsecondary options for all students. School-to-Work experiences connect students to a range of postsecondary options, and are based on the concept that education should be made more relevant and useful to multiple future careers and lifelong learning.