Upcoming College and Career Readiness and Success Events
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Looking for events that address college and career readiness and success issues? Learn more about some upcoming events below:
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Sourcing STEM Skills for America with Industry Talent Pipelines
A Common Framework for Employability Skills
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On May 22, 2014, the Department of Education’s Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) hosted a Webinar, “OCTAE Presents a Common Framework for Employability Skills” in order to unveil The Employability Skills Framework. The framework is an online collection of tools and resources designed to share strategies for integrating core employability skills into high-quality Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs at both the state and federal level.
State Workforce Policy Legislative Round Up
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Despite the fact that job training programs are important for developing a skilled, employable workforce, these programs have faced drastic cuts since 2010.
Skills in Demand: Preparing Students for the High Growth Jobs of the Future
What’s The Value Of An Associate’s Degree? The Return On Investment For Graduates And Taxpayers
This report examined the economic benefits of attaining an Associates Degree. The authors analyzed data from 579 community colleges and data gathered by Payscale.com on the earning estimates of graduates from the community colleges in the study. The authors found Associates Degree completers had a median net gain during a 40-year work-life of more than $259,000 compared with that of a high school graduate in the state where the community college is located. However, there is a wide variation in the net gain among states.
Predictors of Postsecondary Success: Understanding the Value of Workforce Data
As part of our Webinar series building on the brief, Predictors of Postsecondary Success, which summarizes research that identifies student skills, behaviors, and other characteristics that predict future academic and workplace success, this Webinar will provide an overview of workforce data and its utility. Presenters will discuss the opportunities and trends related to workforce data as well as the challenges and opportunities of building connections to education data.
Career Clusters: Forecasting Demand for High School Through College Jobs, 2008-2018
This report provides projections of job demand as well as skill and educational requirements through the year 2018 for jobs that fall into each of the 16 technical education and career clusters. The report also includes wage data to help identify high-wage clusters and occupations.
Characteristics of Career Academies in 12 Florida School Districts
This report examines the characteristics of Florida career academies in the 2006/2007 school year. Student and school-level data, as well as the Department of Education’s Common Core of Data from a nonrandom sample of 12 districts are analyzed. The findings reveal the types and locations of career academies, characteristics of the high schools offering career academies, and the number and characteristics of students enrolled in career academies.
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