education and workforce policy
Monday March 18, 2013
Design Matters: Lessons from Accelerating Opportunity
by Rachel Pleasants McDonnellAccelerating Opportunity, Jobs for the Future’s multistate initiative to redesign Adult Basic Education (ABE), is entering its second year of implementation. Drawing on the findings of the Accelerating Opportunity evaluators (the Urban Institute) and our own experiences as the managing partner, we can reflect back on the design phase, from...
Topics: Education and Workforce Policy
Tuesday March 12, 2013
Workforce Innovation Fund: Lessons Learned So Far
by Stephen J. LynchStephen Lynch, JFF program director and WIF grantees coach, shares some lessons learned on the Workforce Innovation Fund blog. You can also read it here:
Over the past several months, a group of five workforce development intermediaries have engaged with representatives of the twenty-six Workforce Innovation Fund grantees, in order to initiate a...
Tuesday February 19, 2013
JFF's response to President Obama's State of the Union
by Jobs for the FutureIn last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama drove home the need to create good middle-class jobs as the key to growing and sustaining our economy. “Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions as a nation,” he said. “How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills needed to do those jobs?...
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