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Love, Ivy; Conroy, Edward; Palmer, Iris; Sattelmeyer, Sarah – New America, 2023
The resources that federal financial aid, state financial aid, and federal public benefits programs provide, when they operate effectively, are critical to older students and students with children. This report seeks to shed light on how these programs are functioning by analyzing data and policies across four states--Colorado, Missouri, North…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, State Aid, Adult Students
Amaya Garcia – New America, 2024
Grow Your Own (GYO) programs are an increasingly popular strategy for strengthening and diversifying the teacher workforce. By focusing on recruiting and preparing teachers from the community for the community, GYO programs are highly localized and designed to meet the needs of teacher candidates and the school systems where they will work. This…
Descriptors: State Policy, State Programs, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Recruitment
Amechi, Mauriell H. – New America, 2022
Despite the growing popularity of WBL, the community college and workforce development fields need greater transparency and clarity on the design of these programs to broaden workforce pathways, ensure the transferability of exemplary program models, and support the advancement of equitable outcomes for all students, especially learners from…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship
Tooley, Melissa; Hood, Joseph – New America, 2021
New America analyzed the national landscape of educator micro-credentials (MCs) to determine how to best harness their potential to more successfully attract, develop, and retain great teachers. We find MCs to be a promising alternative to more traditional (and largely ineffective), compliance-focused teacher professional development, as well as…
Descriptors: Credentials, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Alternative Teacher Certification
Tooley, Melissa; Hood, Joseph – New America, 2021
This brief draws upon its companion report, "Harnessing Micro-credentials for Teacher Growth: A National Review of Early Best Practices," as well as New America's previous work on educator micro-credentials, to outline a set of model policy proposals for states to effectively incorporate high-quality micro-credentials into educator…
Descriptors: Credentials, State Policy, Educational Policy, Best Practices