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To increase the ability of community colleges to address today’s workforce needs, the TAACCCT program awarded nearly $2 billion dollars to more than 700 community colleges. The TAACCCT grants focus on strengthening these colleges by building...

Examines the interrelationship of literacy rates, growth of middle-skill jobs, and the importance of integrating literacy skills into workforce training in the United States.

Explores the current state of adult education and highlights examples of promising practices and programs from across the U.S. in GED/Adult Basic Education, English as a Second Language, and Developmental Education.

The new Common Core standards — an initiative that seeks to bring diverse state curricula into alignment with each other by following standards-based education reform — cannot drive real, widespread improvement unless they are coupled with a push...

Summarizes curriculum offerings, activities, and accomplishments of Biotech training and certification in Austin, Texas, in courses specifically targeting the entry-level workforce and informed by strong collaboration with local employers.

Provides basic data on Wisconsin families in economic distress, highlights key challenges on the horizon for Wisconsin’s workforce and economy, and concludes with key policy levers that can address Wisconsin’s workforce challenges while helping to...

A typology of the various types of collaborations in which colleges can engage in order to provide guidance for fiscal and regulatory policy change to meet students’ needs and help them transition to four-year institutions and the workforce.

Documents an evaluation of a set of workplace literacy pilot programs that were funded by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development and presents a summary of lessons learned from the initiative.

Identifies the most promising approaches for revising the structure, curriculum, or delivery of developmental education and suggests areas for future innovations in developmental education practice and research.

Offers key principles for Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) using career pathways with disadvantaged populations, based on experiences of Workforce Innovation and Regional Economic Development (WIRED) grantees serving those populations.