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This book grows out of the work of the Secretary's Commission for Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS commission), which was charged with identifying the skills needed by young people for the modern workplace. The set of competencies they identified have subsequently become known as the ' SCANS Skills'. The editors of this volume commissioned a set of papers by experts in education and policy, transition from school to work, and assessment. Papers in the volume include: The changing workplace: new challenges for education policy and practice / Lauren B. Resnick and John G. Wirt; Skills standards, qualifications systems, and the American workforce / Marc S. Tucker; Policy choices in the assessment of work readiness: strategy and structure / Richard F. Elmore; Signaling the competencies of high school students to employers / John H. Bishop; A school-to-work transition system: the role of standards and assessments / Paul E. Barton; Quality control for educating a smart workforce / Alan Lesgold; Designing an assessment system for the future workplace / John R. Frederickson and Allan Collins; A school-based strategy for achieving and assessing work-readiness skills / Henry I. Braun; Work readiness assessment: questions of validity / Robert L. Linn; Evaluation of performance tests for work readiness / Robert M. Guion; Open-ended exercises in large-scale educational assessment / R. Darrell Bock; New directions on the assessment of high school achievement: cross-national perspectives / Margaret Vickers; The role of assessment in educating for high performance work: lessons from Denmark and Britain / Davis Jenkins.