Learning at Work in a Work-Based Welfare System: Opportunities and Obstacles

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This report finds that work-based learning strategies learned from school-to-work initiatives—mentoring, contextual learning, and credentialing of skills learned on the job—can be important elements of efforts to turn welfare-to-work experience into oppor

Published oct. 29, 2013

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This report finds that work-based learning strategies learned from school-to-work initiatives—mentoring, contextual learning, and credentialing of skills learned on the job—can be important elements of efforts to turn welfare-to-work experience into opportunities for learning and advancement.