Student Guarantee Tutition Refund Policy

How confident are you in the training that is provided from your institution? Francis Tuttle is pretty confident and in fact will retrain you under certain conditions!


From their course catalog -

If your employer determines that specific technical competencies identified on your transcript are lacking after completing one of our programs, we will provide retraining to you at no cost.

See page 20 for the policy

Does your institution have a similar policy?

Oklahoma ACT Scores

The Oklahoma High School ACT report was recently released, how did we do?

The ACT test is graded on a scale of 0-36, with 36 being the highest. Oklahoma’s average composite score is 20.7, with 73 percent of the Sr class participating. The national average composite score is 21 and a participation rate of just 47 percent.

Edmond North High School reported the highest average in Oklahoma with a 24.3.

How did your high school do? Find out by downloading the Oklahoma ACT Report.

2008 Annual Report

The 2008 Annual CareerTech Report has been released. You can read about our Skills Centers, Youthful Offenders Programs, Technology Centers, System expenses and revenues, and our comprehensive high school program.

Dalton Sherman's DISD Keynote

This morning I received a link to Dalton Sherman's moving keynote address for the Dallas ISD. Dalton is a 5th grader at Charles Rice Learning Center, home of the Tigers!! Thought you might enjoy.

A National Accountable

In 1983, the report A Nation at Risk was released. Fast forward 28 years and the Department of Education has released a new report.

Over the next several months, Secretary Spellings will pose various questions on the Department’s website related to the state of education in the U.S. in an effort to spur ideas, discussion, debate and, ultimately, action to better serve America’s students.” To begin the dialogue, the Secretary released an issue paper entitled A Nation Accountable, which examines America’s response to the warnings of the 1983 national report on education, A Nation at Risk.

Weigh in on the Conversation

Download the complete A Nation Accountable PDF

Download the complate A Nation at Risk PDF

Economic Development 103: An Advanced Course

Here are the reports and references from the Oklahoma Department of Commerce Econ 103 course held this week.

Aerospace Sector Report
Grow Oklahoma
Governors Council for Workforce and Economc Development

LMI Related
Local Employment Dynamics
Location Quotient Analysis

Socio-Demographic http://www.dataplace.org/

Data Warehouse http://www.econdata.net/

State Benchmarking
State Education Benchmarks
State New Economy Benchmarks

Supplementing Publicly Available Date
http://www.economicmodeling.com/
http://www.economy.com/
http://www.econdata.net/

Associations
National Association of Workforce Boards
Corporation for a Skilled Workforce
National Center on Education and the Economy
The Council for Community and Economic Research
Area Development Corporate Survey
US Chamber of Commerce
American Society for Training and Development
Development Alliance
National Infrastructure for Community Statistics

Papers & Books
Using Information to Drive Change: New Ways to Move Urban Markets
Economic Turbulence

XTREME Tech Prep

Seventy-five people recently attended XTREME Tech Prep, Oklahoma’s Tech Prep Leadership Institute. The two-day institute, held at the Francis Tuttle Technology Center’s Reno campus in Oklahoma City, was designed to facilitate conversations about the direction of Tech Prep over the next few years. Participants heard from national and state experts in Tech Prep, Career Majors, Preparatory Services, Professional Development, Accountability and Grant Writing.

The institute consisted of work teams from the consortia so that the participants could work together, gather outside information and develop ideas to take back to their consortia. Notes collected during the two days will be posted to the Oklahoma Tech Prep Blog: http://oktechprep.blogspot.com/

Downloads of the presentation given are available here: http://www.okcareertech.org/techprep/presentations.htm

Information Clearing House

From time to time we receive a link to a quality paper that should be shared. Now, we have a place to do it. On the main Tech Prep website we invite you to read one of the many articles in the Information Clearing House (ICH).

The ICH will be divided into 5 categories. Those categories include Career Majors, Preparatory Services, Professional Development, Accountability and General Education Articles. We hope that this makes it easy for you to read articles that relate to Tech Prep in very specific ways.

Information Clearing House: http://www.okcareertech.org/techprep/ich.htm