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This 2-page resource, provided by the Centers Collaborative for Technical Assistance (CCTA), is a bridge learning best practices guide. CCTA offers a series of National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education best practice guides. CCTA comprises five NSF ATE centers. CCTA was formed "in...
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This webinar, provided by the Centers Collaborative for Technical Assistance, focuses on the Bridge to Bioscience Learning Community, a series of courses that prepare students for success in biotechnology and related college programs. Lessons learned from this bridge program may be applied across...
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This 5-page paper, from the Workforce Strategy Center, discusses bridge training programs. These programs "are designed to prepare individuals without the requisite basic skills for postsecondary training leading to career-path employment and further learning in a specific industry or occupational...
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This 12-page paper, from the Journal of Research and Technical Careers, discusses a study that was conducted to "explore how technical skills taught ... in Florida engineering and engineering technology-themed career academies fit technical skills desired by local employers in technology and...
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Between 2006 and 2010, the percentage of women in the College of Engineering rose from 27.7% to 33.4% at Cornell University and the graduation rate for women from the College of Engineering increased from 75.5% to 82.6%. The key areas of focus for the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation...
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This 34-page paper, written by Andrea Messing-Mathie, discusses apprenticeship systems for middle-skill workers. The following topics are discussed: youth unemployment and the challenge of skills shortage, existing apprenticeship systems and different innovative approaches, and the potential for...
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This paper, from Suzanne Silverman and Alice M. Pritchard of the Vocational Equity Research, Training, and Evaluation Center, a project of the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund in Hartford, Connecticut, covers the disparity of girls in technology programs in Connecticut. A study was...
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This 3-page letter of support was collectively signed by eleven members of the National Convergence Technology Center's (CTC) Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT). The letter affirms the group's belief in the value of the "BILT model" that puts business and industry in a co-leadership role...
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This 6-page Advisory Board Case Study, provided by Internet Scout Research Group, is part of the Working Partners Toolkit. This toolkit was designed to help educators strengthen their relationship with industry and includes six case studies. The case studies are gathered from successfully initiated...
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This video and online calculator show how to calculate the molecular weight of a substance from the atomic weights given on the periodic table. Use the molecular weight to convert between the macroscopic scale (grams of a substance) and the microscopic scale (number of molecules of that substance)....
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