TWEET OF THE WEEK
@WhiteHouse “In America, a quality education cannot be a privilege that is reserved for a few” —Obama: http://go.wh.gov/comm-college #FreeCommunityCollege
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TOOL OF THE WEEK 
Colorado Advanced Manufacturing Career Action Tool
This website provides visual pathways a user can take to determine the skills, education and training jobs require in manufacturing. Using this tool you’ll find complete information for each job type, including a video showcasing what the job looks like, what responsibilities the job entails, hot to get into the profession and what license or certificate may be required.
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ARTICLE OF THE WEEK 
Obama Proposes Publicly Funded Community College for All
President Obama announced today a proposal to provide students with two years of free community college, a program modeled after the highly successful Tennessee Promise, which provides free community and technical education tuition. “Community college should be free for those willing to work for it because, in America, a quality education should not be a privilege that is reserved for a few,” said Obama.
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RESOURCE OF THE WEEK
Success in Real-Time: Using Real-Time Labor Market Information to Build Better Middle-Skills STEM Pathways
This brief encourages states to support their colleges as they use high-quality, real-time labor market information to align the creation of middle-skill STEM pathways with robust career opportunities, and provides recommendations and examples for how states can do so.
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PARTNER UPDATE OF THE WEEK 
We are very excited to announce that the National Career Clusters® Institute is merging with CareerTech VISION, hosted by the Association for Career and Technical Educators (ACTE). We hope to see you in New Orleans November 19-22.
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Katie Fitzgerald, Communications Associate 

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