School-To-Work & "Certificate of Initial Mastery"

Representative Henry Hyde (R-IL), Chairman, House Judiciary Committee, hosted an education conference entitled What Goals 2000 Means to the States on February 12, 1997on Capitol Hill. He opened the conference with an overview of the Mark Tucker "Seamless Web" plan that would change the mission of the public schools from teaching children knowledge and skills to training them to serve the global economy in jobs selected by workforce boards.

• What's Wrong With School-to-Work How It Began & Public Concerns, Centralized Databases, The Social & Economic Planners, and Does Business Really Need to Support School-to-Work? by Jeanne Donovan, Coordinator Consumer Advocate for Quality Education in the Public Schools.
• BCER Business Coalition for Education Reform Thirteen national business organizations have joined together to form the BCER to help strengthen America's schools. The BCER works to increase academic achievement for all students by supporting and expanding business involvement in education at the national, state, and local levels.
• Will Your Child be Educated - or Trained to Work? What will your child learn in school? To feel good even if he can't read, write, or calculate? See a flier outlining School-to-Work by Eagle forum.
• Labor Allocation During the Third Reich To some, this sounds like the pattern for school to work.
• Eductional Tyranny:HR 1617 Certificates of Mastery Katie Levans - Educational perspectives Seminars.
• Tennison's Story of Certificate of Initial Mastery See article Nation at Risk.
• Dianna Fessler's Summary of Tennessee's School-to-Work Opportunity. Also her testimony before the Tennessee Senate Education Committee.
• Missourians Alarmed by School-to-Work Proposals by Oliver Starr, Jr. Parents are shocked by the contents of this massive School-to-Work proposal. If put in to effect, "our children will no longer receive a basic education. They will be trained for one of six career paths in the 21st century workforce."
• Answering Secretary Riley's Testimony Phyllis Schlafly, conservative journalist.
• Pathways to School Improvement North Central Regional Educational Laboratories, a non profit organization.
• March 1997 Education Reporter Report on conference explaining the problems with Goals 2000 and School to Work.
• Improving School-to-Work Transition for All Students North Central Regional Educational Laboratories.
• Skills Diploma vs. Certificate of Initial Mastery Report from the Texas Skill Standards Research and Communication Project.
• Why So Many Americans Oppose The Careers Bill Family Research Council, a non profit, non partisan organization.
• School-To-Work Check out your tax dollars at work at this government site. School-to-Work: the result of Federal Education and Labor Departments. You can select any state to see where they stand on this issue: Louisiana STW Initiative summary. You can also see Louisiana's web site for School to Work.
• Tennessee School-to-Career Information. What is School-to-Career, Who will it affect, and other questions answered.
• LMINet - ALMIS HomepageLMINet (Labor Market Information System) is produced under the support of the Employment and Training Administration, US Department of Labor. ALMIS (America's Labor Market Information System) represents a vision of the future of labor market information and the realization of a concept that has existed for many years a truly comprehensive labor market information system.
• When Do They Settle Down? This study by the Rand Corp. indicates that we only need School to Work for the dropouts. So why are we doing what we are doing?

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