Most Recent Publications

A Primer for Work-Based Learning: How to Make a Job the Basis for a College Education (December 2008)
This practice brief introduces work-based learning, a central and novel aspect of how workers in the Jobs to Careers initiative are trained and advanc... read more
Sustaining the Promise: Realizing the Potential of Workforce Intermediaries and Sector Projects (December 2008)
Complex workforce development projects managed by intermediaries, usually focused on one industry or sector, provide a wide range of education, training, and su... read more
National Fund for Workforce Solutions: Experience and Evidence (November 2008)
The strategies of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions derive from strong evidence that workforce partnerships or intermediaries and sectoral approaches wo... read more
An Agenda for the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress: Ten Ways the Federal Government Can Restore Economic Vitality and Increase Competitiveness Through Education and Skill Development (November 2008)
In January 2009, President-elect Barack Obama and the 111th Congress took office. They serve at a time when our country faces unparalleled economic and social c... read more
Better Together: Realigning Pre-College Skills Development Programs to Achieve Greater Academic Success for Adult Learners (November 2008)
How can states help working adults bolster pre-collegiate skills that restrain them from taking full advantage of college credit-level career and technical prog... read more
Learning and Working: Year One of the Jobs to Careers Initiative (November 2008)
Learning and Working highlights the challenges Jobs to Careers grantees have faced and their accomplishments over the first year of the initiative. J... read more
It’s Not About the Cut Score: Redesigning Placement Assessment Policy to Improve Student Success (July 2008)
Placement assessment policy, which governs how colleges assess the academic skills of entering students and place them in courses that are appropriate for their... read more
Ensuring College Success: Scaffolding Experiences for Students and Faculty in an Early College School (July 2008)
The Science, Technology and Research Early College School, working closely with Brooklyn College—a partnership that has been supported by the Woodrow Wils... read more
Test Drive: Six States Pilot Better Ways to Measure and Compare Community College Performance (July 2008)
Increasing demand for at least some postsecondary education in today’s labor market has met with stagnating college completion rates. As a result, states ... read more
Leveraging Postsecondary Partners to Build a College-Going Culture: Tools for High School/Postsecondary Partnerships (July 2008)
A number of schools and school districts seek to revitalize their partnerships with postsecondary institutions as a way to create pathways to postsecondary edu... read more