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Download full textEaton, Annelise – Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2020
Educators have long recognized that students gain important skills through real-world learning, which frequently takes place outside school hours or school walls. In Boston and Providence, after-school program leaders engaged in a bold experiment to formally recognize these skills through an innovative credential called a digital badge. For two…
Descriptors: Credentials, Recognition (Achievement), Information Storage, Experiential Learning
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Direct linkSkujina, Ruta; Loots, Ellen – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
Internships are work-based learning experiences, but when they are unpaid and become the standard after formal education, they imply an opportunity cost and could add to the formation of obstacles to the socio-economic mobility that (public) education should seek to attenuate. The present study consists of an evaluation of the intern economy in…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Experiential Learning, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Year Up" is an occupational and technical education intervention that targets high school graduates to provide them with six months of training in the information technology and financial service sectors followed by a six-month internship and supports to ensure that participants have strong connections to employment. This What Works…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Information Technology, Finance Occupations, Internship Programs
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Year Up" is an occupational and technical education intervention that targets high school graduates to provide them with six months of training in the information technology and financial service sectors followed by a six-month internship and supports to ensure that participants have strong connections to employment. This What Works…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Information Technology, Finance Occupations, Internship Programs
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Year Up" is an occupational and technical education intervention that targets high school graduates to provide them with six months of training in the information technology and financial service sectors followed by a six-month internship and supports to ensure that participants have strong connections to employment. This What Works…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Information Technology, Finance Occupations, Internship Programs
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
A project was designed to develop a process by which the life experiences of women could be assessed for entry into employment and for entry into or advanced placement in vocational education programs. Following a review of literature and interviews to determine the approaches currently used to accredit women's life experience learning,…
Descriptors: Certification, Competence, Credentials, Employment Qualifications
