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What Gets in the Way of Education Reforms?
By Kathy Booth Each year, the federal government and philanthropy release funding opportunities for educators to improve outcomes for learners. Often, these resources are channeled into multiyear initiatives. Educators rally around fresh logic ...
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What Major Should Students Choose to Get a Good Job?
By Kathy Booth 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 ...
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How Can Educators Help Learners Navigate the Evolving Labor Market?
By Kathy Booth 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 ...
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Who Transitions From Adult Education to Postsecondary Programs?
By Dr. Blaire Toso, PhD 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 ...
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What Can We Learn About College and Career Readiness from More Comprehensive Datasets?
By Thomas Torre Gibney 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 ...
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How Can Modernizing A State Data System Become More Than a Tech Project?
By Kathy Booth 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?
By Kathy Booth 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 ...