- BCER
Business Coalition for Education Reform
- An organization
of businesses that work to increase academic achievement by involving
businesses in the educational process
- Committee for Economic Development -
CED - The Employer's Role in Linking School and Work
- Discusses the
employer's role in linking school and work (pdf format)
- CTE Resource Center
- A program supporting
vocational and occupational-technical preparation programs by
providing resources for curriculum development, design, and implementation
- ETA
Resources for Employers
- Information
for employers from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment
and Training Administration (ETA)
- Fairfax
County Chamber of Commerce
- The official
web site of Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce
- Fairfax
County Virginia Area Guide
- The official
web site of Fairfax County
- Information
Technology Association of America Website
- Participates
in the Techforce Initiative to highlight and expand IT employer
involvement in School-to-Work (STW) or School-to-Careers (STC)
nationwide
- Inroads
- An organization
that works to increase minority representation in business and
other disciplines by matching undergraduate student interns with
employers
- Institute
for Women in Trades, Technology & Science
- Promotion of
integrating women into nontraditional careers by providing training
and technical assistance and publications to the educational
system and employers
- Leadership
Education and Development (LEAD)
- A program for
preparing minority high school students to become business leaders
- NAB/NELC School-To-Careers Initiatives
- Information for employer participation in the school to career initiative
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- NVTC
- The Northern Virginia Technology Council - The Voice of Technology
Business
- Includes information
on the Technology Workforce: The Workforce Committee of NVTC
which helps member companies recruit, educate and retain a world
class workforce; also contains international press reports on
life and work in the new world economy
- NELC
Home Page
- Site of the
National Employer Leadership Council which outlines a vision
for the nation's workforce
- NET Gain No. 26: Twenty-first Century
Skills Summit
- Information
about and resources from this summit convened by former Vice President
Al Gore in April 1999
- Project Career Aware
- Infomation
to help businesses connect with public schools for heightened
career awareness
- Table
of Contents: A Compact for Learning
- A booklet from
the U.S. Department of Education devoted to helping develop a
partnership among families, the community, and educators
- TECH
CORPS Home Page
- A project to
involve information technology businesses in school-to-work and
school-to-career initiatives
- Techforce: Building IT-STW Partnerships
- Technology
professionals volunteering to help schools integrate technology
into the teaching and the learning process; archived information
- Welcome to Virginia's CareerConnect
- Virginia's
one-stop electronic workforce development system designed to
provide information to employers, job seekers, and students
- Welfare
to Work Partnership
- Designed to
help companies reach a new workforce to help fill the shortage
of potential employees in the job market
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