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What Major Should Students Choose to Get a Good Job?
In the wake of news stories and polls questioning whether college is worth the cost, entities like the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching are seeking to quantify which ...
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How Can Educators Help Learners Navigate the Evolving Labor Market?
The world of work is changing in ways that make it challenging for learners to identify career options and the most appropriate training programs to prepare them for those opportunities. For example, advances in technology and increasing ...
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Who Transitions From Adult Education to Postsecondary Programs?
Adult basic education programs—which teach foundational language and literacy skills to adults—help some of the most marginalized learners attain language, literacy, numeracy, digital literacy, and workforce training and preparation skills. ...
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What Can We Learn About College and Career Readiness from More Comprehensive Datasets?
When it comes to designing equitable college and career readiness policies, context matters. From decades of research on inequalities in schooling, we know that students’ educational trajectories are not solely a function of individual choices. ...
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How Can Modernizing A State Data System Become More Than a Tech Project?
The COVID-19 pandemic upended education in numerous ways, making clear that issues ranging from daily attendance to college-going rates are deeply impacted by public health and economic factors. Many interest holders, including school ...
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Can You Make a Living Wage After Taking A Few Community College Classes?
Across the country, a narrative is growing that completing college isn’t necessary and that a couple of well-chosen courses can lead to jobs with strong wages. This story is gaining traction, despite decades of research that shows earning a ...