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Semiconductor Investments Are Changing Regional Workforce Development Systems. Can They Be Transformational?
The first in a series of issue briefs looking at workforce training responses in four U.S. regions—the sites of some of the nation’s largest semiconductor company investments.
How a Manufacturing Fix Grew Into Connecticut’s Big Bet on Short-Term Credentials
Connecticut grew a “farm system” for shipbuilders and sheet metal fabricators and has been expanding it into more industries across the state.
The Future of Learning Looks Like Workforce Infrastructure
Education technology is not having a downturn. It has a category problem.
Getting to Work
With AI’s job impacts looming, a broad commission of experts say the U.S. needs to go big with a coordinated plan for educating and training workers. Also, a research brief on the transformational workforce effects of CHIPS, and new guidance…
Credentials of Value
Short-term credentials move beyond the “Wild West” as states step up investment. Also, the National Skills Coalition seeks a bold workforce policy agenda, and essays on why workforce infrastructure is the ed tech of the future and on the policy…
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(ac)Counting for Credentials
How to preserve sensemaking in a distributed and rapidly scaling credential ecosystem.
Broad-Access Institutions Could Lead Higher Ed’s AI Future. First, They Need Resources
Without investment from technology companies and philanthropies, the community colleges and state universities that educate the vast majority of undergraduates can’t responsibly integrate AI.
While Others ‘Vibecode,’ the Labor Department Keeps it Real on AI
A new federal AI framework is about practical workforce guidance rather than existential hand-wringing.