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Barbara Endel, PhD Program Director, Jobs for the Future Educational Attainment and Workforce

Barbara Endel, PhD Program Director, Jobs for the Future Educational Attainment and Workforce Idaho November 13-14, 2012. A State Need for Pathways to Marketable Credentials.

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Barbara Endel, PhD Program Director, Jobs for the Future Educational Attainment and Workforce

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  1. Barbara Endel, PhD Program Director, Jobs for the Future Educational Attainment and Workforce Idaho November 13-14, 2012

  2. A State Need for Pathways to Marketable Credentials • Idaho ranks 38th nationally in educational attainment with 34.74% of adults with a college degree (national average is 38.3%) • 84,144 – people in ID or 10.64% with less than a H.S. diploma (of this, 3.74% with less than a 9th grade education) • 27.45% with some college, but no degree • Postsecondary credentials are the gateway to family-supporting wages and are critical to breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in America.

  3. What Problem are We Trying to Solve? • ID has a significant population of low skill, low wage individuals with the need to acquire the right skills • Many jobs in ID go unfilled because there are not enough trained workers • ID must focus attention on the full continuum of workers – especially the lowest quartile (25%) in order to raise overall economic and workforce indicators

  4. Accelerating Opportunity: $33.5 Million Initiative • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, University of Phoenix Foundation, The Open Societies Foundations, and U.S. DOL • Four year initiative (through spring, 2015) • Goals: • IL, KS, KY, NC, LA, MS – GA is an Associate State - testing integrated basic skills models • State policy framework • Program costs • Evidence to build a national movement

  5. Research and Evidence Source: Columbia University Source: Educational Outcomes of I-BEST, Washington State Community and Technical College System's Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training Program, Findings from a Multivariate Analysis, Community College Research Center, Columbia University

  6. Ambitious State Transformation Efforts • Underprepared Adult Learners: NC’s Basic Skills Plus targets adult students placing into 9th-12th grade with legislative approved tuition waivers for training programs. Back to Work targets 400,000 workers across 16 counties with exhausted unemployment and pays for re-training. • State Workforce Framework: LA has created “WorkReady U” as an overall framework to organize ABE and CTE training programs for underprepared learners. Braiding funding. • Career Pathways – Sector Focused – 7 Accelerating Opportunity States - 16 + states (WI, OR, CA, PA, etc) are investing into pathways driven by the community college and WIA Workforce Systems • Strategies have a common element of strong cc’s and a commitment to underprepared adult learners

  7. Implications for Idaho: • Accelerating Opportunity is building out a concept called “Affiliate Network” • Work with 4-6 additional states and provide technical assistance and foster integrated career pathways. • Require an investment from the state and a strong commitment to undertake transformational efforts. • Recommend Achieving the Dream which helps a state focus on student success concepts at the institutional level.

  8. Implications for Idaho: • Build stronger coordination and capacity of the state’s community college infrastructure to promote career pathways and workforce efforts. • Focus attention on educational attainment for adult learners. • Develop a state policy agenda and commitment on improving postsecondary student success (given the state has 27% with some college and no degree).

  9. Key Questions: • What does the state know about its least successful students and adult learners? Is there widely distributed data indicating where the leaks are in the pipeline? Are there public goals around ed attainment or workforce? • Does the state have a strong and well coordinated career technical/community college system capable of responding to today’s needs? • Does the state’s postsecondary system have aligned curriculum to real time labor market demand? • Can the state easily test and bring to scale key reforms or improvement strategies? • Is there any current state or public policy agenda promoting efforts to assist underprepared adult learners?

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