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Cassie Wuest; Ivonne Garcia – MDRC, 2024
Summer youth employment programs (SYEPs) are a workforce development strategy used around the country to provide early work experiences to young people each year. These programs partner with local employers to provide subsidized wages for young people between the ages of 14 and 24. The programs often include job-readiness training (which prepares…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Summer Programs, Youth Programs, Program Evaluation
Di Xu; Kelli A. Bird; Michael Cooper; Benjamin L. Castleman – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Many public workforce training programs lead to industry-recognized, third-party awarded credentials, but little research has been conducted on the economic benefits of these credentials in the labor market. This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the labor market returns to industry-recognized credentials connected to community college…
Descriptors: Noncredit Courses, Credentials, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market
Amy Loyd – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2024
This guidance updates Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 10-16, Change 2, published September 15, 2022, and developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (ED) (the Departments). Within ED, the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) will update Program Memorandum (PM) 17-2, and the…
Descriptors: Performance, Accountability, Guidance, Federal Legislation
Jean Grossman; Hannah Betesh; Blake Dohrn; Daniel Litwok; Jacob Klerman – MDRC, 2024
Job Corps is the largest and most comprehensive education and job training program in the United States for young people ages 16 to 24 who are not in school and are not working. To deepen the Job Corps program's ability to generate and use evidence to improve the labor market trajectories of eligible young people, this report discusses ways Job…
Descriptors: Job Training, Federal Programs, Program Evaluation, Educational Research