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Tyler Reeb; Chris Swarat; Barbara Taylor – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2024
This paper presents a rationale for using professional and continuing education (PaCE) units at post-secondary institutions throughout California to design and implement talent-pipelines, research and development collaborations, and other knowledge ecosystems where emerging and returning professionals can acquire the knowledge, skills, and…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Continuing Education, Professional Education, Technological Advancement
Alex Jacobson; Lorna Porter; Lucy Hadley; Lupita Alcalá; Jason Willis – WestEd, 2025
In 2024, WestEd partnered with Sobrato Philanthropies to conduct a strategic and economic analysis of English Learner programs in the state of California. The study sought to define the scale of economic challenges and explore underlying conditions impacting the costs of implementing English Learner programs in California in alignment with best…
Descriptors: English Learners, Second Language Programs, Program Evaluation, Best Practices
Renee Rana Kazemipour Paquier – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study responds to a national conversation about the role that Career Technical Education (CTE) might play in meeting workforce demand for soft skills. It is challenging for CTE programs to offer soft skills for several reasons. Both educators and employers tend to associate CTE with hard skills, or technical skills and therefore the programs…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Soft Skills, Community Colleges, Public Colleges
Leung-Gagné, Melanie; Wang, Victoria; Melnick, Hanna; Mauerman, Chris – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
In 2021, California committed to providing universal prekindergarten (UPK) for all 4-year-olds and income-eligible 3-year-olds by 2025-26. UPK includes several early learning programs, including transitional kindergarten (TK), the California State Preschool Program (CSPP), Head Start, and expanded learning opportunities to provide full-day early…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Planning, Preschool Education, Access to Education
Jez, Su Jin; Nodine, Thad – Education Insights Center, 2016
The Economic and Workforce Development Program (EWD) aims to support California's economy by aligning community college educational programs with workforce development needs. The program connects employers and community college educators through a network of workforce training resources and partnerships called "Doing What Matters for Jobs and…
Descriptors: State Programs, Economic Development, Labor Force Development, Alignment (Education)
Jez, Su Jin; Adan, Sara – Education Insights Center, 2016
California's dynamic economy depends on having a large and skilled workforce; consequently, the state must continually support and refine efforts to provide workers with employer-valued competencies. Given the wide range of regional and state needs across this vast state, ensuring that the workforce has the training to keep up with labor market…
Descriptors: State Programs, Economic Development, Labor Force Development, Alignment (Education)
Frank, Janet C.; Altpeter, Mary; Damron-Rodriguez, JoAnn; Driggers, Joann; Lachenmayr, Susan; Manning, Colleen; Martinez, Dana M.; Price, Rachel M.; Robinson, Patricia – Health Education & Behavior, 2014
Current public health and aging service agency personnel have little training in gerontology, and virtually no training in evidence-based health promotion and disease management programs for older adults. These programs are rapidly becoming the future of our community-based long-term care support system. The purpose of this project was to develop…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Labor Force, Gerontology, Community Colleges
Faxon-Mills, Susannah; Whitaker, Anamarie A.; Cannon, Jill S.; Gomez, Celia J.; Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2018
The Big Lift is a collective impact initiative extending from preschool to third grade in San Mateo County, California. The collective impact effort consists of people and organizations from various sectors uniting to tackle a single, complicated societal problem -- in this case, third grade reading achievement. The initiative is a partnership of…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Skills, Primary Education, Early Childhood Education
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2018
The most important components of an academic institution are the educational programs it offers. California Education Code and accreditation standards emphasize the essential nature of a college's educational programs to that college's existence, and often a college's programs reflect the individual personality of the college and the uniqueness of…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Program Development, Educational Practices, Curriculum Development
Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge, 2015
This Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) annual performance report for the year 2014 describes California's accomplishments, lessons learned, challenges, and strategies California will implement to address those challenges. California's RTT-ELC implements a unique approach that builds upon its local and statewide successes to…
Descriptors: State Programs, Educational Quality, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Kotamraju, Pradeep; Mettille, John L., III – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2012
Career and technical education (CTE) is increasingly seen as a major potential contributor to the recovery of the U.S. economy. However, the effectiveness and impact of the current Carl D. Perkins Act (otherwise known as Perkins IV) that governs CTE are unclear. Is the federal investment in CTE paying off? To answer this, we need to establish the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Technical Education, Vocational Education, Cost Effectiveness
Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, 2015
"Degrees of Freedom" challenges California to include currently and formerly incarcerated students in the vision set by the state's 1964 Master Plan for Higher Education--a vision of college access for all, for the benefit of the entire state. A college education strengthens economies, changes lives and renews communities, and yet, for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Mukamal, Debbie; Silbert, Rebecca; Taylor, Rebecca M. – Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, 2015
"Degrees of Freedom" finds that California has not been adequately providing effective college opportunities for criminal justice-involved students, despite the fact that such access will help California build safer and more economically viable communities. This report is part of a larger initiative--Renewing Communities--to expand…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Hendra, Richard; Dillman, Keri-Nicole; Hamilton, Gayle; Lundquist, Erika; Martinson, Karin; Wavelet, Melissa – MDRC, 2010
This report summarizes the final impact results for the national Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project. This project tested, using a random assignment design, the effectiveness of numerous programs intended to promote steady work and career advancement. All the programs targeted current and former welfare recipients and other low-wage…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Welfare Recipients, Low Income Groups, Unwed Mothers
Demers, Anne L.; Mamary, Edward; Ebin, Vicki J. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2011
Introduction: Today there are significant challenges to public health, and effective responses to them will require complex approaches and strategies implemented by a qualified workforce. An adequately prepared workforce requires long-term development; however, local health departments have limited financial and staff resources. Schools and…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Distance Education, Health Personnel, Public Health