Education Task Force: New Mexico Forum Resources

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Albuquerque, New Mexico
September 9, 2004

• Community College Journal - June/July 2003
  "If America’s So Dumb, Why Are We So Rich?"
  by Anthony P. Carnevale and Donna M. Desrochers
• The Washington Post - August 25, 2004
  "Skilled Labor in High Demand; Employers Lament Declining Ranks of Capable Workers"
  by Nell Henderson
• A Publication of The Education Trust - Fall 1999 Vol. 3, Issue 2
  "Ticket to Nowhere: The Gap Between Leaving High School and Entering College and High-Performance Jobs"
• From the Margins to the Mainstream: Jobs for the Future
  PDF: "Four Building Blocks for a System of Educational Opportunity: Developing Pathways To and Through College for Urban Youth"
  by Adria Steinberg, Cheryl Almeida, LiLi Allen, and Sue Goldberger
• Education Week - September 1, 2004
  "Preparing Students for Work In a Computer-Filled Economy"
  by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murname
• Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University - April 2003
  PDF: "Community Colleges and the Equity Agenda: What the Record Shows"
  by Thomas Bailey, James Jacobs, Davis Jenkins and Tim Leinbach
• National Institute for Literacy
  "Workforce Education"
• Promising and Effective Practices Network
  "Workforce Development: Index to Effective Practices"