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Download full textThompson, Barbara – 1980
In this paper, the Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction reviews issues surrounding competency testing and describes Wisconsin's response to a nationwide effort to enhance student learning through competency based education. Efforts of the past two decades to improve traditional educational practice in Wisconsin are outlined.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Court Role
Poole, Vicki A. – 1988
Having determined that neither traditional vocational education nor basic skills alone prepare students adequately for jobs and lifelong learning, the Wisconsin Legislature enacted an Education for Employment Standard that required every school district to form a school-business partnership council. The council's purpose is to guide the…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1988
This guide provides ideas and recommendations from the business and education communities of Wisconsin to help provide an opportunity for all students to reach their fullest career potential. The first part deals with the need to restructure the educational system in order to concentrate on education for employment and on the procedures entailed…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Business Education, Career Education, Education Work Relationship
