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Human Work and Learning
The Great Resignation: Workers’ Experiences With Job and Education Transitions
Sept. 21, 2022
Individuals who left their jobs voluntarily since the start of the COVID pandemic were more likely to enroll in postsecondary education than those who lost their jobs, according to this report from the Strada Education Network. The biggest influence on their decision to enroll is whether they believed the program would result in a good…
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What Works in Tech Apprenticeship

Best Practices for Expanding Registered Apprenticeships in the Tech Sector

June 21, 2022
In today’s world of work there exists a pool of talented and capable Americans with the potential for and interest in working in tech, but they face hiring challenges because they lack certain credentials or prior work experience in the field. It is increasingly evident that there is a mismatch between traditional tech hiring practices…
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The Most Popular Degree Pays Off

Ranking the Economic Value of 5,500 Business Programs at More Than 1,700 Colleges

June 1, 2022
Majoring in business pays off. A new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce finds that while graduates’ earnings and federal student loan debt vary by institution and degree level, the majority of business programs lead to median earnings that are roughly 10 times graduates’ debt payments two years after program…
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Grads on the Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates
May 27, 2022
This report from the National Bureau of Economic Research presents a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state. The…
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How To Ease the Nursing Shortage in America
May 23, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic worsened a national shortage of registered nurses, making it increasingly urgent that policymakers invest in higher education, coordinate strategies to alleviate the pressures on the nursing workforce, and make the entire health care system more equitable and stable.A report by the Center for American Progress examines the barriers in higher education contributing…
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Preparing for Tomorrow’s Middle-Skill Jobs

How Community Colleges Are Responding to Technology Innovation in the Workplace

April 13, 2022
This report describes a study conducted by researchers from CCRC and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Task Force on the Work of the Future to understand how community colleges are adapting their workforce programs to changing skill demands, diversifying pathways to certificates and degrees, and grappling with equity concerns. 
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How the Great American Jobs Reshuffle Enables a New Opportunity Agenda
March 16, 2022
There’s a great American jobs reshuffle underway that, while wrenching, has a potential upside for education, contends this report from the American Enterprise Institute. This upside is an opportunity to expand two promising and related approaches to education, training, and hiring: skills-based hiring and K–12 career pathways programs. These new approaches create workers skilled through…
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Promising Approaches for Connecting Opportunity Youth to Registered Apprenticeships
Dec. 16, 2021
Apprenticeships can be a vehicle to turn young people’s aspirations into rewarding careers. A new report from Jobs for the Future describes promising practices in building and growing successful apprenticeship programs for young people ages 16 to 24 who are neither working nor in school.
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The Education Blockchain Initiative
Dec. 7, 2021
A report from the American Council on Education summarizes the U.S. Department of Education-funded and ACE-managed Education Blockchain Initiative, the key results of the Blockchain Innovation Challenge, and the lessons learned and best practices identified by the selected four pilots.
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Youth Policy: How Can We Smooth the Rocky Pathway to Adulthood?
Dec. 6, 2021
The COVID-19 recession has highlighted the ongoing vulnerabilities of young people in the workforce following a prolonged series of especially harsh economic downturns. A new report from the Center on Education and the Workforce examines the United States’ fragmented and inadequate approach to youth policy against the backdrop of economic pressures facing youth and young…
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