Browsing Category
Opinion
37 posts
Our nation’s primary workforce training program is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act has created a maze of training programs that people struggle to navigate, writes Steven Taylor of Stand Together Trust. States need more flexibility to try something new, he says.
Three big questions about AI and the future of work and learning
AI is set to transform education and work today and well into the future. We need to start asking tough questions right now, writes Alex Swartsel of JFF.
What’s in your (skills) wallet?
Skills look to be the currency of the future. Creating wallets to hold them will mean breaking down a "labyrinth of silos," writes Naomi Boyer of Education Design Lab.
Despite the backlash, it’s time to double down on diversity in business
In the current climate, it’s crucial for business leaders to lean into the tangible benefits of DEI, write Cat Ward and Michael Collins of JFF.
Forget the skills gap—colleges and industry have to tackle the opportunity gap
Community colleges and employers have to build an entirely new kind of relationship if we want education and work to lead to economic stability and upward mobility for more Americans.
College career services are ailing—networks are the cure
To be engines of economic mobility, colleges need to focus less on providing basic job information and more on helping students build professional networks, writes Julia Freeland Fisher of the Clayton Christensen Institute.
We must remove unnecessary barriers to cybersecurity careers—our nation’s welfare depends on it
The cybersecurity field can—and should—be a first mover toward skills-based hiring, write Tom Monahan, president of DeVry University, and Lydia Smyers, vice president of U.S. Education at Microsoft.
The key to better education and career decisions? Work experience—in high school
Fewer and fewer teens hold jobs—but having early work experience is crucial for making good decisions about education and career. State and regional leaders need to step up with work-based learning programs that fill the gap, writes Julie Lammers of ASA.
Our old way of training Americans for ‘good jobs’ is past its sell-by date
We’re at a pivot point in education and workforce development. Employers in the U.S. and its allies have an opportunity to accelerate their economies by collaborating to scale new pathways to prosperity. They need to seize that opportunity, writes JB Holston, former CEO of the Greater Washington Partnership.
There’s an ethical way to handle layoffs. Hint: It emphasizes learning and career mobility
Both the economy and uncertainty about it are running hot. Companies shouldn't wait until a crisis to start thinking about layoffs and how they might help employees land on their feet, writes Cat Ward of JFF.