Work Keys USA [microform]

"Work Keys" is a comprehensive program for assessing and teaching workplace skills. This serial "special issue" features 18 first-hand reports on Work Keys projects in action in states across North America. They show how the Work Keys is helping businesses and educators solve the challenge of building a world-class work force. The reports are as follows: "Liberty Check Printers Prepares for the Future" (Paul Annett); "Schools Seek Curriculum, Skills Match" (newspaper reprint) on the Duval County, Florida, program; "Bay Area To Use Work Keys for Workforce Development" (Gerald Bartlett); "Work Keys Helps Carbone of America Comply with QS [Quality Standards] 9000 Standards" in Farmville, Virginia; "Flour City Packaging Focuses on a Workforce Development Program" in Minnesota; "Iowa Workforce Development's Work Keys Profilers Receive International Award" (Sharon Dralle); "McHenry County Unlocks the Door to Qualified Workers" in Illinois (Ginger Knapp); "Growing a Regional Work Keys Program in Southwestern Pennsylvania" (Bob Dove); "Pine Technical College's Work Keys Service Center is Growing to Serve Area Business" in Minnesota (Howie Anderson); "ICI Polyester and John Tyler Community College Launch Model Employee Development Program" in Hopewell, Virginia; "Polaris Industries Committed to Excellence" in Osceola, Wisconsin (Mary Zins); "Work Keys a Graduation Requirement for Wichita Public Schools" (H. Guy Glidden); "Work Keys Heads North: Canadian Colleges Become Work Keys Service Centers"; "Retention Rates Are High for Workers Hired through Ontario Work Keys Program"; "Work Keys Builds Virginia's Workforce"; "Texas Workforce Center Meets Needs of Area Job Seekers and Employers" (Shu-Ching Chen); "The Greater Washington Board of Trade Undertakes a Workforce Availability Project"; and "'Filling in the Gaps': Design and Delivery of Work Keys-Based Training Programs" in Phoenix, Arizona. (YLB)