Previous News Highlights

The Modesto (Calif.) Bee, January 4, 2008
Ready to Work: All but 23 seniors at Patterson High School volunteered to take the WorkKeys test last September and October and made outstanding scores. Scoring 91 percent in reading and 87 percent in math, 311 seniors demonstrated strong work-readiness skills. Scores “put to rest” the rumor that these high school students weren’t prepared for the workforce.; More than 3,000 students in Stanilaus County have taken the test in the last two years. To emphasize the WorkKeys results, in January, the school presented Careers in Manufacturing, a program to match new high school graduates with jobs. The program included presentations, assessments of basic skills and help with job applications and interviews.
The Detroit News, January 5, 2008
The brains behind perfect ACT score: Ten years after his family moved from Beijing to the United States, student Chi Song made a perfect score on the ACT exam. Song, 17, continues the trend for high scorers in the state and at his school. Song is the second Troy High School student to get the highest score of 36 in 2007 and among 20 Michigan students who also earned the top score between January and September last year.
The Times Herald (Michigan), January 8, 2008
Groden offers ideas to move county forward: Administrator Shaun Groden offered a plan of action to bring more jobs to St. Clair County and ensure that a comparable work force is in place. Groden wants to attract more businesses to the area and match companies and corporations with the local work force. He is encouraging members of the work force in the surrounding area to take the WorkKeys test, which is administered by St. Clair County Community College.; “Let’s do something. Let’s move forward,” he said.
The Gazette (Iowa), January 11, 2008
CAREERS Corridor Gold: Area employees score well in premier skills testing project: The Corridor’s two-year-old Skills Advantage Program incorporated WorkKeys for 400 employers and announced the test results, amid much fanfare on January 11, 2008. The first-in-the-nation skills testing project results across employers and industry sectors were released at Kirkwood Community College. ACT Chief Executive Richard Ferguson said the Corridor is the first region of the country to complete a project assessing the skills of a representative sample of its entire work force using WorkKeys. The average scores achieved in two tests, Applied Mathematics and Reading Information, reached into the “gold“ range, and the average score on a third test, Locating Information, fell into the “silver” range.