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A postsecondary degree or credential is increasingly necessary for success in today's job market. That said, postsecondary attainment by underrepresented students continues to lag when compared to their peers. These resources provide...

WIOA sets out to implement workforce education and employment system reforms to help strengthen the public workforce system. Although WIOA replaced WIA, recent studies under WIA sought to address research questions to inform such reforms. The...

Describes the vision for Accelerating Opportunity Initiative which seeks to change how Adult Basic Education is delivered by addressing policy-based, systemic, and programmatic barriers to student success.

Introduces a four-stage framework for scaling up education reform through community college system innovation to strategically increase the odds of successful expansion, impact, and sustainability relevant to K-12 systems, four-year colleges, and...

Assesses the extent to which priority of service requirements under the Jobs for Veterans Act are being met, with a particular focus on implementation of priority of services at the state and local levels through the One-Stop Career Center system.

Assesses the impacts of several factors, which include Hurricane Katrina and the aging workforce, on NASA’s Space Shuttle Program and offers findings and recommended strategies that may be useful to regions facing major economic catastrophes or...

Using data from The High Growth Job Training Initiative (HGJTI), this report documents early training outcomes, impacts, and implementation structures of nine grantees located across the country.

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.

Synthesizes findings from a random assignment evaluation of programs at six community colleges that promoted access and retention in college.

This toolkit was developed to help practitioners and their employer partners to assess the business value of their workforce services. The Business Value Assessment Toolkit includes a planning handbook, an automated Excel file for tracking...