The SCANS Report

Instruction shall be provided in the skills and competencies identified in the SCANS (United States Secretary of Labor’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) report and in the employers’ survey report of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce’s Business Center for Excellence in Education such as basic skills, resource skills, information skills, systems skills, and technology skills. 
--Final Regulation, South Carolina School-to-Work Transition Act, 1994

The hallmarks of success described above are reflected in the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) Report, developed by a group of 31 leaders from businesses, schools, the government, and unions from across the United States. The SCANS Commission was established in 1990 by the Department of Labor to examine the demands of the workplace and to determine whether the current and future workforce is capable of meeting those demands. The SCANS report, published in 1991, outlines the actual competencies and skills that today's employers expect competent, qualified applicants to possess. To read more about SCANS, take a look at this website: http://wdr.doleta.gov/SCANS/lal/lal.pdf

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