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Massachusetts
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General
Resource Materials and Providers
Labor Market Information
Learning Support
General
The Massachusetts
Department of Education has guidelines for effective
delivery of adult basic education programs. The
Workplace Education Program funds eligible agencies that provide
instructional services in basic literacy, numeracy, and English
as a second language. Services are provided in partnership with
businesses, workers, labor organizations and adult education
providers.
URL: http://www.doe.mass.edu/acls/
Resource
Materials and Providers
SABES, the
System for Adult Basic Education Support, is a comprehensive
training and technical assistance initiative for educators and
programs. SABES services are delivered through five
Regional Support Centers located at community colleges across
the state.
URL: http://www.sabes.org/
The New England
Literacy Resource Center strengthens adult literacy
services in New England through sharing and collaborative
special projects among State Literacy Resource Centers (SLRC) or
their equivalents, adult literacy practitioners and
policy-makers.
URL: http://www.nelrc.org
Massachusetts Tech Prep
of the Department of Education prepares students for a highly
skilled technical occupation that allows either direct entry
into the workplace as a qualified technician or continuation
with further education.
E-MAIL: info-stw@doe.mass.edu
MassExcellence provides
support services to organizations who want to enhance the
performance of their management systems. Services include:
organizational assessments, workshops, training and coaching,
award programs and networking opportunities.
URL: www.massexcellence.com
TrainingTheWorkforce.Com,
Inc. designs and delivers employment-related training
to individuals seeking to improve their work-related
skills. Customized training is offered to employers
and public education and training agencies in addition to
professional development programs for instructors.
URL: http://www.trainingtheworkforce.com
A Guide to Creating
Worker-Centered Education Programs, from the
Massachusetts Worker Education Roundtable is for teachers,
program coordinators, union representatives and others
interested in creating worker-centered education programs. It
demonstrates the unique benefits, complexities and challenges of
labor-management workplace education (for fee).
URL: www.umass.edu/roundtable
Labor
Market Information
The Fall River Area
Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Inc. encourages
the growth of existing businesses and industries while giving
assistance to new firms seeking to locate to the Fall River
area. Also, the Fall River Office of Economic
Development offers free services to employers including employee
recruitment and training.
URL: http://www.fallriverchamber.com
Learning
Support
The National Center
for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) works
in the field of adult basic education to define a comprehensive
research agenda; pursues basic and applied research under that
agenda; builds partnerships between researchers and
practitioners; and disseminates research and best practices to
practitioners, scholars, and policy makers.
URL: http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall
The Massachusetts Board of
Higher Education provides information on the state's
education programs, colleges and universities, financial aid
assistance programs, grants, and scholarships.
URL: http://www.mass.edu/
The Office of School to
Career of the Massachusetts Department of Education provides
vocational-technical education programs and services to youth
and adults.
URL: http://www.doe.mass.edu/stw/
Jobs for the Future
strengthens the transitions and linkages between work and
learning. Its workforce development system includes
post-secondary vocational education, adult basic education,
short-term job training programs, and on-the-job training.
URL: http://www.jff.org/
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Last updated: July 9, 2004. |