The Colorado General Assembly passed the Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids, SB08-212 (known as CAP4K), creating alignment from preschool through postsecondary education. The law requires a regular review of academic standards, state assessments, and postsecondary and workforce readiness. In addition, annual reporting needs to include…

The research aims to prove the economic conditionality of the process of large-scale introduction of distance education in the context of global digital transformation by the economic interests of private subjects of socio-economic relations. Reaching the terminal stage of the crisis of the liberal socio-economic system leads to the need to…

This paper considers the legal mechanisms of protecting the interests of private investors in the sphere of online investing, which are based on blockchain technologies. Blockchain technologies allow reducing the mismatch between the requirements of the labor market and the offer of the higher education market. This paper's methodology is…

Lifelong learning has been associated with many benefits, from supporting work and careers to improving health and well being and increasing community engagement. Its importance is growing as longer life expectancy combines with a rapidly changing economy and society. However, participation in learning has fallen substantially since 2010 with…

The emergence of artificial intelligence and neural networks creates a significant potential for automating an increasing number of business processes of large, small, and medium-sized businesses in various sectors of the economy. The financial sector, education, medicine, retail trade, and transport are the most promising from the point of view…

Purpose: This study aimed to provide guidelines and insights for all stakeholders of the career ecosystem including students, training and placement (T&P) coordinators, higher education institutes and recruiting organizations to prepare students for the graduate labor market, resulting in enhanced graduate employment.…

High turnover among early childhood teachers (ECTs) affects children's quality of care and development at a vital stage. Our study explored the antecedents of ECTs' turnover intention and the buffers against it. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we proposed that work-family conflict (WFC) and family-work conflict (FWC) increase…

We provide a comprehensive analysis of a Texas policy that relaxed teacher licensing requirements and created a large for-profit training industry. Using detailed administrative data, we show that for-profit-trained teachers have higher turnover and lower value-added than standard-trained teachers. But the policy significantly increased the supply…

This special issue responds to the call for renewed attention to sales curriculum design by examining three intersecting trends: the rapid transformation of the sales profession, the evolving characteristics of today's college students, and the widening gap between traditional university teaching methods and the demands of contemporary sales…

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic teachers reported high levels of stress and burnout, raising concerns about a potential increase in teacher turnover and future teacher shortages. We use administrative data from the 2018 to 2019 through 2022 to 2023 school years to examine how the pandemic affected teacher turnover in Arkansas. We find relatively…

The increase in remote working has changed the way both employees and organizations view work in an already tumultuous landscape of the IT sector. In this study, we surveyed Finnish employees (n = 266) from an international IT sector company in 2022 after the remote working mandates were lifted. We firstly examined how remote work intensity (RWI)…

Employment is foundational to young people's successful transition into adulthood, yet many youth with lived experience in the foster care system struggle to obtain employment that provides a living wage. Youth with foster care experience typically do not have the same contacts and connections to employment opportunities as youth who have not been…

From the 1960s until his death in 1997, Albert Shanker was a major force in expanding the labor movement, defending and improving public education, and fighting for all people to live freely in democracies. As president of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), he became known…

Masculine rationality pervades organizations and organizational theory but remains largely unexplored and or studied by human resource development (HRD) researchers and practitioners. This essay defines rational masculinity and summarizes its origins and effects on women in the workplace. Current literature supports the need for increased…

Employee turnover is costly to businesses; replacing one employee costs 90-200% of the employee's annual salary (Allen, 2008; Cascio, 2006). Business leaders know that ineffective onboarding may be a component of the problem. This quasi-experimental study compares results from three annual cohorts of Associate Software Engineers who participated…