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Download full textPatrick Mortiere; Melissa Johnson; Brooke DeRenzis; Jeannine LaPrad – National Skills Coalition, 2025
This policy playbook presents a comprehensive set of strategies aimed at empowering state policymakers, governors, and state agency leaders to cultivate a strong, diverse, and multigenerational workforce capable of driving the development and maintenance of our nation's new infrastructure. By implementing the following recommendations, state…
Descriptors: Empowerment, State Officials, State Agencies, State Government
Institute for College Access & Success, 2025
TICAS' 2025 Federal Policy Agenda advises members of the 119th Congress on how to strengthen the nation's higher education system to ensure a college degree is both accessible and affordable. Our higher education system faces extensive challenges, but a postsecondary credential remains the most reliable path to economic mobility, and the economy…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Barriers, Educational Practices, Public Policy
Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2025
Pursuant to CRS 23-1-141, the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) is required to report on necessary steps and any barriers identified including recommendations for necessary legislative changes to deliver a statewide longitudinal data system in Colorado that connects K-12, postsecondary education and workforce information. This report…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Labor Force
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The number of jobs in computer science (CS) and information technology (IT) is projected to grow rapidly in the United States over the next decade as the demand for workers expands and current CS and IT workers retire. Against the larger backdrop of growth in CS and IT employment and wages nationally, Ohio is looking for ways to grow and diversify…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Information Technology, Labor Force Development, Job Development
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2022
With the infusion of $45 billion in federal funds through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Act and Digital Equity Act over the next five years, states are entering a time of opportunity for closing the digital divide for families. However, there is also an urgent need to strengthen their broadband workforce. Without a prepared…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Access to Computers, Labor Force Development, State Policy
Rachel Slama, Editor; Nelson Lim, Editor; Douglas Yeung, Editor; Elie Alhajjar, Contributor; Rushil Bakhshi, Contributor; Julia Bandini, Contributor; Dwayne M. Butler, Contributor; Avery Calkins, Contributor; Angela K. Clague, Contributor; Arianne Collopy, Contributor; Brandon Crosby, Contributor; Brandon De Bruhl, Contributor; Tuyen Dinh, Contributor; Fernando Esteves, Contributor; Susan M. Gates, Contributor; Charles A. Goldman, Contributor; Timothy R. Gulden, Contributor; Wenjing Huang, Contributor; Kelly Hyde, Contributor; Rita T. Karam, Contributor; Tracy C. Krueger, Contributor; Jonah Kushner, Contributor; Mary Lee, Contributor; Nelson Lim, Contributor; Maria C. Lytell, Contributor; Laurie T. Martin, Contributor; Nikolay Maslov, Contributor; Michael G. Mattock, Contributor; Skye A. Miner, Contributor; Alvin Moon, Contributor; Ojashwi Pathak, Contributor; Neeti Pokhriyal, Contributor; Carter C. Price, Contributor; Sean Robson, Contributor; Srikant Kumar Sahoo, Contributor; Morgan Sandler, Contributor; Anton Shenk, Contributor; Rachel Slama, Contributor; Éder M. Sousa, Contributor; Tobias Sytsma, Contributor; Ivy Todd, Contributor; John Vahedi, Contributor; Jessie Wang, Contributor; Madison Williams, Contributor; Jody Chin Sing Wong, Contributor; Douglas Yeung, Contributor – RAND Corporation, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to significantly affect the American workforce -- both civilian and military personnel -- through job displacement, augmentation, and the need for widespread upskilling. President Biden's October 2023 executive order on AI emphasizes the government's commitment to upskilling the federal workforce in…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Labor Force, Military Personnel, Job Skills
Jeannine LaPrad; Lindsey Reichlin Cruse; Kate Michaels – National Skills Coalition, 2024
Postsecondary education and training have become essential to economic mobility, and equitable access to postsecondary education and training is critical to building an inclusive economy. Part of building inclusivity is increasing the number of and diversity of working people earning these quality credentials in workforce education and training…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Equal Education, Economic Status
Patrick, Susan; Alderman, Khamiah; Gagnon, Laurie – Aurora Institute, 2023
We know the importance of learning experiences that happen beyond the confines of a traditional classroom. But how might federal policy support such experiences to prepare young people for life after high school? That's where work-based learning comes in -- a strategy designed to help students connect what they learn in the classroom with what is…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Career Pathways
Edgerton, Adam K. – Congressional Research Service, 2022
Career and technical education (CTE), sometimes referred to as vocational education, provides occupational and non-occupational preparation at the secondary and postsecondary levels. CTE is a key element of the nation's workforce development system, providing students of all ages with both academic and technical skills to succeed in further…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Labor Force Development, Credentials, Job Skills
Vilsack, Rachel – National Skills Coalition, 2022
Economic downturns, like a global pandemic, magnify the need for timely, accurate, and complete data that policymakers need to make data-informed decisions that will help workers, businesses, and their communities recover. Good data helps to better understand what's working and what's not in terms of creating greater access to workforce…
Descriptors: State Action, Data Use, Equal Education, Social Justice
National Center on Education and the Economy, 2024
This Blueprint is a distillation of what the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) has learned across nearly four decades of research and working shoulder-to-shoulder with partners to support education leaders and practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and community stakeholders to study, design, and build equitable,…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Cost Effectiveness, Partnerships in Education, Stakeholders
Rosen, Rachel – MDRC, 2020
The field of career and technical education (CTE) has been evolving in recent years. Formerly known as vocational education, high-quality CTE programs are being championed by educators, policymakers, and employers alike, who recognize that these robust models can help high school students acquire the skills, training, and postsecondary credentials…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Pandemics, COVID-19, Labor Force Development
Donovan, Sarah A.; Stoll, Adam; Bradley, David H.; Collins, Benjamin – Congressional Research Service, 2022
This report is a response to congressional requests for the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to identify, synthesize, and explain the core components of the workforce skills gap discourse and, to the extent possible, explore and clarify evidence on the existence of skills gaps. The report acknowledges that the skills gap label is often applied…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Education Work Relationship, Labor Force, Educational Attainment
Amy Loyd – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2024
The purpose of this memorandum is to clarify how funds provided under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), Title II of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), may be used to pay for the costs of child and dependent care and transportation when adult learners need this assistance to participate in adult education and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Adult Education, Family Literacy
Jessica K. Jackson; Jeffrey Starr; D’Andre Weaver – Digital Promise, 2024
This publication outlines the Digital Equity Framework--a set of principles, guidelines, and policy recommendations designed to bridge the digital divides at the state level, for K-12 systems, and for higher education. It introduces three frameworks for digital equity, designed to lay the groundwork for learners to fully participate in society…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Access to Internet, Access to Computers, Elementary Secondary Education
