This report from the National Skills Coalition outlines the importance of local, industry-driven partnerships between workforce, education, and human services systems and stakeholders to scale work-based learning strategies like apprenticeship.

Earlier this month, the Workforce Data Quality Campaign released a paper detailing how some states are counting people who have completed apprenticeships as part of their postsecondary attainment goals.
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The Occupational Outlook Handbook is the government’s premier source of career guidance featuring information on hundreds of occupations, duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.

This report from the Texas Workforce Investment Council provides an overview of registered apprenticeship in the state and explains how apprenticeship programs can be used to close the skills gap in Texas. The alignment of middle-skill STEM occupations with apprenticeable occupations demonstrates that apprenticeship is a strong workforce strategy to meet the middle-skill need in the Texas labor market.

New research from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce finds that nearly half of states have added good blue-collar jobs that don’t require bachelor’s degrees (BAs). The state-level analysis of those 30 million jobs identifies variation among good jobs gains and losses by industry and education across all 50 states. An interactive, companion website features a tool that allows users to sort the 30 million good jobs that pay without a BA by industry, occupation, and education level. Visit GoodJobsData.org.

The Urban Institute, with its partner George Washington University, released its final impact report on Accelerating Opportunity (AO). AO, a Jobs for the Future initiative, is designed to transform how states work with their adult education programs and community colleges to provide training for underprepared adult learners.

The nation needs a learning and earning exchange to guide individuals in making education and career decisions, advances a new report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce.

Check out Building America’s Infrastructure Workforce for NSC’s recommendations on how sector partnerships can meet the demand for skilled workers.

As you strive to create good jobs and ladders of opportunity for workers, new research published by the Urban Institute suggests that one important avenue for building pipelines for middle-skill jobs is where employers provide opportunities themselves or in industry partnerships to upskill their own workforce and create pathways for entry-level workers in their communities.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Austin-based nonprofit Center for Public Policy Priorities reviewed national best practices to provide a guiding framework for analysis and then, in partnership with the Texas Association of Workforce Boards, surveyed the 28 regional workforce boards in Texas.

Presentation by Elizabeth Sobel Blum, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, at TAWB May, 2017 meetings.

This paper was the work of Whiteboard Advisors, Innovate+Educate and the many leaders revolutionizing the Learning to Employment Landscape.

Research Brief from MDRC focuses on strategies for reaching and engaging a greater number of out-of-school youth