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Direct linkDavis Vo; Cecilia Rios-Aguilar – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: Community college baccalaureate (CCB) programs are expanding across the nation, particularly in California--home of the largest and most ethnically/racially diverse community college system in the nation. CCB programs provide many benefits, two of which include providing an accessible and affordable pathway towards baccalaureate…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, College Applicants, Labor Force Development
Download full textRegion 2 Comprehensive Center, 2024
In recent years, there has been a widespread commitment in Connecticut to diversify the educator workforce by increasing the number of educators of color. The state has invested resources and set clear expectations, but the challenge is now how to best position districts and schools to achieve these results at scale. The Connecticut State…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Minority Group Teachers, School Districts, Labor Force Development
Betsy Alpert – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Georgia established the Dual Enrollment Accelerated Career Diploma (ACD) program in 2015 to address its skilled trades workforce shortage (Dual Enrollment Act, 2015: Williams, 2015). ACD allows high school students to earn their diplomas by replacing several of their graduation-required credits with technical college credentials earned through…
Descriptors: School Counselors, High Schools, Dual Enrollment, Acceleration (Education)
Johannes K. Schmees; Janika Grunau – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Context: Unlike education policy for general education, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) policy often focuses on societal needs, ignoring the attitudes and subsequent behaviors of learners. As a result, the impact of TVET policies is not what was expected and sometimes even counterproductive. Starting from this, we use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Educational Policy, Labor Market
Kathleen Bolter, Contributor; Tim Bartik, Contributor; Brad Hershbein, Contributor; Michelle Miller-Adams, Contributor; Lee Adams, Contributor; Brian Asquith, Contributor; Alfonso Hernandez, Contributor; Kyle Huisman, Contributor; Iryna V. Lendel, Contributor; Gabrielle Pepin, Contributor; Bridget Timmeney, Contributor; Beth Truesdale, Contributor; Yulya Truskinovsky, Contributor – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
The Policies for Place initiative at the Upjohn Institute brings together experts from around the country to study community-based strategies to create good jobs--and how to help people get and keep those good jobs. This initiative represents a unique approach to helping people in distressed places: (1) focus on good jobs because research shows…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Place Based Education, Job Development, Employment Opportunities
Tiffany Neill, Editor; Katharine Frase, Editor; Elizabeth T. Cady, Editor; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Contributor; Board on Science Education, Contributor; Committee on K-12 STEM Education and Workforce Development in Rural Areas – National Academies Press, 2025
Rural areas can provide a rich context for learning science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), but these communities and the students in them are often overlooked in ongoing efforts to expand access to high-quality K-12 STEM education and workforce development. Addressing barriers, often related to funding, and promoting unrecognized…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Rural Areas, Labor Force Development
Ewart Keep – Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), 2025
This paper represents the latest in a line of papers and think pieces that the author has prepared on this topic -- for the UK government, the UK Skills and Productivity Board, and the Scottish Government and Scottish Funding Council -- since 2014. It seeks to explain why trying to bring skills supply into closer alignment with demand for skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Supply and Demand, Employer Attitudes
David Henry Tanner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Workforce development is one of the top issues for state higher education executives today. Employers are actively looking for ways to address skill gaps and labor shortages in their companies. To address these talent gaps, states are aligning their academic program approval process with state workforce needs. Minimal research has explored the…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Higher Education, Labor Needs, State Policy
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2025
This playbook provides ways in which Governors and teams can blur the lines between high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce. Governors play a significant role to Raise the Bar for student success by developing an "education-to-workforce system" that focuses on Unlocking Career Success.
Descriptors: State Government, State Officials, Governance, High Schools
Zachary Jenkins – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Internships are a vital component of Master of Public Health (MPH) programs. Despite 14% of MPH students identifying as Black, limited research has examined their internship experiences. This is particularly troubling given the racial demographics of the public health workforce and the racialized nature of most public health organizations. Using…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Racial Factors, Public Health, Health Services
Daniel Sparks; Sade Bonilla – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2024
More than half of states have implemented tuition-free college policies aimed at reducing attendance costs and incentivizing enrollment. We review the academic literature on the design features and impacts of these tuition-free policies, and we analyze an initiative Virginia implemented in 2021 called Get a Skill, Get a Job, Get Ahead (G3), which…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Institutional Characteristics, Student Costs, Higher Education
Louise Campbell – Oxford Review of Education, 2025
Policy cycles are initiated via a variety of context-bound causal drivers. In situations where systemic reform is desired, agenda-setting is vital to this process. This paper examines 'The National Discussion on Scottish Education', which was a sequence of stakeholder engagements promoted as a listening exercise to enable policy agenda-setting for…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Agenda Setting, Position Papers, Strategic Planning
Association of Community College Trustees, 2024
Student success and workforce development are at the heart of every community college mission. In an increasingly interconnected global economy, the ability to communicate effectively across borders and backgrounds, and to apply field-specific skills and knowledge in an array of geographic and cultural contexts is essential for graduates as they…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Global Approach, Governing Boards, Role Theory
Linda E. Morris – Adult Learning, 2024
During CONFINTEA VII's Panel 4: "Preparing adults for the future of work" and throughout the conference, participants grappled with crafting a "transformative agenda," where adult learning and education (ALE) prepares adults for future workplaces, education is viewed as an individual right and a common good, and sustainable…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Sustainability, Futures (of Society), Education Work Relationship
Lauren Bloomquist; Lauren Peisach – Education Commission of the States, 2025
In a critical year for state education policy, State of the State addresses offer time for new and incumbent governors to outline policy priorities and elevate successes. For the past 20 years, we've tracked, analyzed and identified education policy trends in governors' State of the State addresses to help you understand trending education issues…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Labor Force Development, Career and Technical Education
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