John Truluck, executive director of the Clarendon County Development Board, knows the people of this rural eastern South Carolina county are “hardworking and loyal.” Now Truluck—and the nation—have proof: Clarendon County is the first in South Carolina and the second in the United States to be certified as an ACT Work Ready Community.
About a half-dozen years ago, central Louisiana-based Gilchrist Construction Company (GCC) had a problem. The heavy highway and industrial work contractor was experiencing a nearly 100% turnover in its workforce, meaning its significant investment in employee education was going right out the door.
ACT Points to Improvement Efforts and Calls for More Action, Especially for Underserved Students
Excelencia in Education invites interested individuals to join institutional, political, business, nonprofit, and community leaders for the annual Celebración de Excelencia to recognize America’s top programs for increasing Latino college success October 1 at the US Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, DC.
The 2013 ACT Enrollment Planners Conference (EPC) “hit a home run,” according to Earl Dowling, associate vice president of student affairs at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
Analysis of actual workplace skills provides more accurate measure, reveals deficits for jobs requiring low and high education levels