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The included brief, Building Sustainable Apprenticeships, analyzes the efficacy of the sustainable industry consortium model in supporting successful, sustainable apprenticeship programs.

The National Governors Association's (NGA); Aligning State Systems for a Talent-Driven Economy: A Roadmap for States, is designed to show the process by which states align education, workforce development, and economic development to meet the...

Offers examples of promising partnerships between community colleges and employers and provides recommendations about how such partnerships can be cultivated.

This report examines the structural divide between for-credit and noncredit postsecondary education and the problems it presents for people seeking better jobs with higher pay.

High school graduation requirements is consistently one of the top-searched issues on our website. State policymakers and education leaders come to us wondering: How many total courses do states require for high school graduation? What do states...

JFF's Making Opportunities Work for Youth: Expanding Proven Pathways to College and Careers  shares stories of success for students with multiple barriers and how their programs worked to help  to meet their challenges. 

Employability skills are foundational skills that are necessary for success in the labor market at all employment levels and in all sectors.These skills, which may be taught through the education and workforce development systems, fall into three...

A new Community College Research Center (CCRC) report released today analyzes student enrollment and degree records from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) for more than 200,000 high school students who took a community college class...

Many of today’s college students are older and balancing college with considerable family and work demands. In many cases, that means they can only pursue their studies part-time. In fact, 37 percent of undergraduates seeking a college degree or...

Learn how you, your colleagues, and your programs can find and use free and open educational resources for a wide variety of workforce development topics. These online teaching resources offer a solution to the high cost of curriculum and...