Skills Development
Participants seeking enrollment in an occupational skills development program must first have a high school diploma or GED equivalent.
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Computer Technology |
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Construction Trades |
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Internet-based Skills Development |
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National Bricks-n-Books Project will continue to investigate other occupational skills development programs that might be deployed in the future. Programs presently being considered include Home Healthcare, Hospitality, Manufacturing, and Trucking industries. |
"Every growing boy and youth should learn to handle the recognized tools of the carpenter, as well as the ruler and compass. Mechanical dexterity would often be more useful than ability in gymnastics. The one helps the spirit, the other the body. Elementary schools should have workshops, though they should not actually be technical schools. And every man should learn to use his hands. The hand holds the place of honor at the side of the power of speech in raising man above the beasts."
National Bricks-n-Books Project recognizes that the hard skills required in one community may not necessarily translate into needed skills in another. Each community can be distinguished from another by certain industry-drivers. For example, in the "Rust Belt" of
