In the first year of the Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) initiative, Jobs for the Future (JFF), World Education, and Safal Partners launched a landscape scan to better understand what training resources and…
Through DRAW, JFF, and its partners offer evidence-based, piloted strategies and materials that help adult education teachers build the digital literacy skills and digital resilience of adult learners for educational, employment, and economic success. Professional…
With JFF’s support of implementations of the Google IT Support Professional Certificate program, participating community colleges demonstrated that a competency-based curriculum could successfully help low-credentialed adults advance in the IT sector. With JFF’s support of…
This report is about combining the best evidence, practices, and policies to drive a broader systems reform agenda for what works for adult learners, and trying to improve the persistently low rates at which adults…
This series summarizes the Accelerating CTE project at four of the participating colleges. It provides details on student outcomes and the college’s lessons learned, and recommendations for further inquiry to improve student success and meet…
This brief explores one promising on-the-job training model: the Boeing Manufacturing On-the-Job Training Project, funded by The Boeing Company and managed by the National Fund for Workforce Solutions. The need to build a more robust…
Through the Accelerating Opportunity initiative, Erin Chavez, a single mother, was able to pursue a fulfilling career in health care. In May 2014, Erin Chavez was a single mother trying to decide what kind of…
This Accelerating Opportunity profile showcases William Warren, who was able to channel his passion for art into a career by earning credentials toward a technical certificate in aerospace coatings. In summer 2014, William Warren was…
After spending his childhood in a Thai refugee camp, Eh Kaw Htoo came to America and was able to earn a certificate in machine tool technology thanks to the Accelerating Opportunity initiative. Related Content