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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)
Cronen, Stephanie; Diffenderffer, Anne; Medway, Rebecca – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2023
This compendium presents comprehensive information from the surveys for the full report "Linking Adult Education to Workforce Development in 2018-19: Early Implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act at the Local Level. Evaluation Report. NCEE 2023-001r" (ED626771), and serves as a supplement, which provides in-depth…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Adult Education, Labor Force Development, Labor Legislation
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
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
Stacey L. Bevan; Caroline C. DeWitt – Grantee Submission, 2024
The child mental health crisis resulted in US legislative expansions of funding eligibility and access to clinical interventions in schools. In tandem with the movement to decentralize mental healthcare, we argue that schools are well-positioned to adopt place-based health care models. We describe this framework while summarizing the evidence of…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Educational Innovation, Mental Health Programs
Marisa Mission; Brian Robinson; Paul Beach; Nick Lee; Harold Hinds – Bellwether, 2023
Across the country, career pathways programs are a popular bipartisan tool for addressing state workforce shortages and ensuring students graduate high school with workforce-ready skills. Delaware Pathways is one such example, formally established by executive order in 2016 by then-Delaware Gov. Jack Markell. The program consists of state-approved…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Work Experience Programs, Career Development, State Legislation
McCarthy, Mary Alice; Van Horn, Carl; Prebil, Michael – New America, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic plunged the economy back into recession in early 2020, it laid bare a fragile and profoundly inequitable labor market. The economic expansion that reigned from 2009 through 2019 brought historically low unemployment and inflation but failed to reduce income inequality or arrest the decline in the number of high-quality,…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Employment Programs, Public Policy, Educational Policy
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
Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center, 2022
This briefing paper explores Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) policies and practices that state early intervention (Part C) programs may consider implementing to meet the social-emotional and mental health needs of infants and toddlers in the context of relationships with their parents and other caregivers.
Descriptors: Mental Health, Social Development, Emotional Development, Infants
Adams, Gina; Ewen, Danielle; Luetmer, Grace – Urban Institute, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented, urgent challenges for the child care and early education workforce. Though the workforce has always been fragile, new stressors presented over the past year have highlighted fundamental structural problems in the system, including the inequities facing Black, Latina, and Native American child care…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Child Caregivers, State Policy
Suffren, Quentin; Mezera, Danielle – Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2018
The Career and Technical Education (CTE) playbook series has explored strategies and processes states can use to strengthen CTE program quality and provide students with pathways to postsecondary credentialing and middle- and higher-wage career opportunities. This fifth playbook in the series addresses the final set of steps for strengthening…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), State Programs, Vocational Education, Industry
Prins, Esther; Clymer, Carol – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2018
Many adult education providers are developing career pathways (CP) programs, which are viewed as an important workforce development and poverty alleviation strategy in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, by state and local governments, and by private funders. Based on a three-year researcher-practitioner partnership, this paper uses…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Career Development, Academic Support Services, Federal Legislation
Burnell, Iona – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
The further education (FE) sector in the UK, or post-compulsory education as it is often referred to, has undergone some radical changes in recent years. Historically, FE is synonymous with vocational education and training, providing communities with courses that tended to be in practical, non-academic subjects. Many FE lecturers came from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Postsecondary Education
Hordern, Jim – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
This paper focuses on the proposals for the introduction of "technical degrees" in English higher education institutions advanced by the Labour Party's Liam Byrne in a document entitled "Robbins Rebooted" which was published in August 2014 by the Social Market Foundation. The context and rationale for the proposed technical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Education, Vocational Education, Higher Education
Cushing, Ellen; English, David; Therriault, Susan; Lavinson, Rebecca – College and Career Readiness and Success Center, 2019
As states grapple with competing priorities and constrained resources, there is an increasing focus on efficiency and alignment of programs and resources across state agencies. The College and Career Readiness and Success (CCRS) Center recently analyzed and compared four federal laws that govern the education-to-workforce pipeline. They are: (1)…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Labor Force Development, Elementary Secondary Education