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Direct linkKathleen 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
Peer reviewedMargarita Pavlova; Pernille Askerud – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
This paper is based on findings of a study that examined challenges to innovation and the greening of economies identified by businesses, TVET institutions, and other organisations with the "aim to formulate options for strategic actions to increase 'sustainable competitiveness' of Hong Kong SAR, China" as measured by "The Global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Open Education
Download full textMcCarthy, 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
Cleary, Jennifer; Van Noy, Michelle – John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, 2014
The Great Recession and several other factors have heightened concerns among policymakers and the public at large about higher education's role in employment, leading to a renewed wave of pressures, policies, and incentives to create job-driven strategies at all levels. Policymakers and the public often assume that aligning higher education with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Alignment (Education), Education Work Relationship
Public Impact, 2012
Public Impact asked a simple question: "Will our nation's boldest efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put an excellent teacher in every classroom?" They ran the numbers and discovered the disappointing answer: No. But that's not the end of the story. With a change in schools' strategies, they realized, 87…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Teaching Conditions, Strategic Planning
Public Impact, 2012
Research continues to confirm that without "excellent" teachers consistently, most students who start behind stay behind, and too few middling and advanced students leap ahead. Even solid teachers who achieve one year of learning progress leave achievement gaps intact. Schools that "consistently" provide all students with…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Leadership
Hassel, Bryan C.; Hassel, Emily Ayscue – Public Impact, 2010
Our nation is squandering one of its most important resources--our best teachers--and children are paying the price. Current policy initiatives overlook the most obvious, immediate source of improved teaching effectiveness: The great teachers we already have. The top 25 percent of U.S. teachers--more than 800,000 of them--already achieve results…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Teaching Conditions
Hassel, Bryan C.; Hassel, Emily Ayscue – Public Impact, 2010
Our nation is squandering one of its most important resources--our best teachers--and children are paying the price. We asked a simple question: "Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroom?" We ran the numbers and discovered a disappointing…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Feldbaum, Mindy – Academy for Educational Development, 2009
The emerging transition to a low-carbon and sustainable economy holds great promise for economic growth and prosperity, innovation, and job creation. New green technologies and discoveries--coupled with new demand and forward-thinking public policies that advance sustainability and encourage public-private investments--are starting to transform…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Web Sites, Community Colleges, Climate
CEDEFOP Flash, 1989
This publication of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) describes a project investigating employment and training in Greece, Spain, and Portugal. An introduction tells why CEDEFOP has given priority to those countries. The second section reports the project's examination of the textiles and ready-to-wear…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Fashion Industry, Foreign Countries
California State Job Training Coordinating Council, Sacramento. – 1986
The California State Job Training Coordinating Council (SJTCC) appointed a youth subcommittee to determine the role that the SJTCC should play in preventing inadequate skill development and lack of jobs from destroying the working lives of California's high-risk youth. The subcommittee identified the state's high-risk youth as those who have…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Policy, High Risk Persons, Job Development
Vaughan, Roger J. – 1989
By embracing education as an economic development tool, policy makers adopt a new economic metaphor--a new way of understanding how the economy works and identifying determinants of development. Development policy has shifted focus, from providing incentives for the accumulation of physical capital to emphasizing investments in human capital. Most…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economics, Economics Education, Educational Policy
Schill, William J.; And Others – 1988
The first of five studies in this monograph, "Transition Policies for Youth with Disabilities: Now a Question of Implementation" (Joseph Stowitschek), presents results of a study to determine priority areas for policy analysis among the issues identified in the literature on the school-to-work transition of individuals with disabilities.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy
Labor/Higher Education Council, Washington, DC. – 1992
This report presents the views expressed at the Labor/Higher Education Council's National Meeting, the theme of which was "Education and Work: Redefinitions and New Strategies." Section 1 includes two keynote speeches: "Priorities for Economic Investment in People, Technology, and Public Works" (Ira Magaziner) and "Organized Labor's Stake in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
American Association of Community Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1992
Proactive steps should be taken at the national level to ensure that rural America receives educational and economic opportunities comparable to those provided to the nation's urban regions. This report, by the American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC's) Commission on Small/Rural Community Colleges, details policy and administrative…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Economic Development, Educational Policy
