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Session IV
Workforce and Career Readiness:
Cognitive
Workforce and Career Readiness:
Cognitive
…We now rank 21st in science education in the world, and we rank 25th in
math education in the world…We’ve got a third of our students who enroll
who never graduate from high school. [N]ot only is it bad for the young
people who aren’t getting this education… but it’s also bad for the country
as a whole because we don’t have as many engineers, we don’t have as
many scientists, we’re not inventing the new products that are going to
make all the difference in terms of how well we succeed…Who’s going to
prioritize our young people to make sure they’ve got the skills they
need to succeed over the long term?
- President Obama, September 28, 2010
Maybe us!
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David Conley
From Unidimensional to Multidimensional
Cognitive Indicators of College and Career
Readiness: Where Are We in the Journey?
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Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership in the College of
Education, University of Oregon.
Founder and director of the Center for Educational Policy Research
(CEPR) at the University of Oregon
Founder and chief executive officer of the Educational Policy
Improvement Center
Several publications in several outlets, including three recent
books:
– Who Governs Our Schools? (2003)
– College Knowledge (2005)
– College and Career Ready (2010)
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David Moore
High School Internships: Challenges to the
Common Wisdom
• Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New
York University
• Named 2004 researcher of the year by the National Society
for Experiential Education
• Research focuses on the process by which people learn
outside of classrooms, especially in workplaces; the broader
question underlying his work focuses on the situated nature
of knowledge and learning.
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Ruth Curran Neild
Using Early Warning Indicators to Identify
Students at Highest Risk of Dropping Out
• Research Scientist at the Center for Social Organization of
Schools, Johns Hopkins University
• Work focuses on the transition to ninth grade; high school
graduation and dropout; high school reform; high school
choice; and teacher quality.
• Work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, popular
journals for practitioners, and broadly disseminated
research reports
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Henry Braun
A Policy Perspective on Enhancing Workforce and
Career Readiness
• Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy in the Lynch
School of Education, Boston College University.
• Elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in
1991. He also is a co-recipient of the 1986 Palmer O.
Johnson Award from AERA and the 1996 Award for
Outstanding Technical Contribution to the Field of
Educational Measurement from the National Council for
Measurement in Education (NCME).
• His publications include the America's Perfect Storm report,
released in 2007 by ETS's Policy Information Center.
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Workforce and Career Readiness:
Cognitive
• Speakers are scheduled to talk for 30-40 minutes
• After each speaker, we will have 10-20 minutes for
questions
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