Taking Flight in High School
A novel three-year high school program packed with work-based learning prepares students for jobs in southwest Ohio’s growing aviation industry.
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In Tough Tech Landscape, a Midwest Training Provider Doubles Down
As entry-level hiring slows in tech, the nonprofit i.c. stars has had to get more creative about getting its learners the kind of work experience that can open doors even without a degree.
Systemic Workforce Development Problems Hinder Semiconductor Training Programs
This issue brief examines barriers in workforce development that threaten to derail the momentum around training hundreds of thousands of Americans for semiconductor technician jobs.
Semiconductor Investments Are Changing Regional Workforce Development Systems. Can They Be Transformational?
Introducing 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.
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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AI Can’t Augment What it Erodes
The country needs an AI policy response that focuses on retooling and continued human development, or else we risk losing the very skills the tech…
The Future of Learning Looks Like Workforce Infrastructure
Education technology is not having a downturn. It has a category problem.
(ac)Counting for Credentials
How to preserve sensemaking in a distributed and rapidly scaling credential ecosystem.