Reports, Studies and Presentations

 

§         Full Report “A Demand Side Strategy to Meet Indiana’s Workforce Basic Skills Challenge” , Indiana Chamber of Commerce, January 2005
 
§         The Demand for Soft Skills: Key Skills for Indiana's Growing Occupations through 2014, InContext, September 2007
 
§         Working Hard, Falling Short, America’s Working Families and the Pursuit of Economic Security”, October 2004, The Working Poor Families Project
 
§         Employer Investment in Workplace Literacy Programs, The New Zealand Centre for Workforce Literacy Development, January 2005
 
§         Profiting from Literacy: Creating a Sustainable Workplace Literacy Program, Conference Board of Canada, December 2005, 28 pages
 
§         Wising Up: How Government Can Partner with Business to Increase Skills and Advance Low Wage Workers, Center for Law and Social Policy, April 2006
 
§         Are They Really Ready To Work? The Conference Board, 2006
      http://www.conference-board.org/publications/describe.cfm?id=1218
 
§         Tough Choices OR Tough Times, The Report of the New Commission on Skills of the American Workforce, National Center on Education and the Economy, 2006
 
§         Turning Skills Into Profit: Economic Benefits of Workplace Education Programs
 
·         Investing in Indiana’s Working Families to Build a 21st Century Economy, Indiana Institute for Working Families, February 2007, 43 pages
 
§         “America’s Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation’s Future,” Educational Testing Service, February 2007. Download for free the full report, executive summary, or power point presentation
  
§         Mounting Pressures Facing the U.S. Workforce and the Increasing Need for Adult Education and Literacy, National Commission on Adult Literacy, May, 2007, 67 pages
 
§         Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Effectiveness – a new study released jointly by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Center for American Progress finds that this country is failing to prepare students to compete in the knowledge-based workforce of the twenty-first century, 2007 
 
§         Indiana Immigration and Workforce Patterns, Sagamore Institute for Policy Research, June 2007, 47 pages
 
§         "2006 Workforce Training Results", Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, 99 pages
 
§         "Evidence about the Effectiveness of Public Training Programs for Incumbent Workers", Upjohn Institute Employment Research Journal, April 2007
 
 

Indiana's Adult Education Performance Report

Please view our recent release of "Indiana's Adult Education and Workforce Skills Performance Report:  Preparing Adults for a Brighter Future", February 2008