Education Week – Caralee Adams
“A new assessment system to measure career-related content was unveiled today by the National Academy Foundation, a network of 500 career-themed high school academies, and WestEd, the San Francisco-based educational research nonprofit. Just as a college-admissions officer might look at a student’s grade point average before offering a spot in its freshman class, an employer could benefit from knowing a graduate’s level of job-skill proficiency before extending a job offer. Also, students who complete career programs are often strong candidates for college, but it can be difficult to gauge their readiness with current tools. The NAF system is intended to complement the assessments being developed for the Common Core State Standards…” (more)