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Ben Koller – Jobs for the Future, 2025
Adult learners make up a significant portion of college and university students in the United States, but awareness and data around this population and their challenges, particularly for students enrolled in online programs, are lacking. Practitioners and others in the ecosystem also lack research into the experiences of adult students…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Adult Learning, Adults, College Students
David Altstadt; David Bradley; Mary Clagett; Erica Cuevas; Gopika Mavalankar; Karishma Merchant; Ethan Pollack – Jobs for the Future, 2024
In this policy road map, Jobs for the Future (JFF) offers common-sense, field-tested policy solutions that state and federal lawmakers can enact today to begin reengineering education and workforce systems toward the vision and core principles of No Dead Ends. These policy recommendations are organized under four key priority areas: (1) Empower…
Descriptors: Policy, Policy Formation, Career Pathways, Strategic Planning
Umair Tarbhai; Ethan Pollack – Jobs for the Future, 2024
Student debt has exploded over the past several decades, rising to over $1.7 trillion. Federal student loans represent over 90% of student loan balances, with private financing making up the remainder. Research has shown that the negative impact of student debt has not been distributed equally across different demographics, with Black borrowers…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment, Race, Debt (Financial)
Alex Perry; Amy Starzynski – Jobs for the Future, 2024
The current U.S. secondary education, postsecondary education, and workforce training systems are failing to serve the needs of many of today's students. Securing a good job with a family-sustaining wage increasingly requires workers to possess industry certifications, degrees, and credentials, but U.S. education systems are not set up to help…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Secondary School Curriculum, Career Academies
David Altstadt; Erica Cuevas; Libuse Binder – Jobs for the Future, 2024
Jobs for the Future (JFF) is developing this state policy framework to outline the steps states can take toward fully adopting each of the Big Blur's four key components and creating a more effective system for grades 11-14. The Big Blur argues for the need to erase the arbitrary boundaries between high school, college, and careers and create one…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, Grade 12, Vocational Education
Jobs for the Future, 2024
With this paper, we deepen and expand upon our body of research into the public awareness and reputation of nondegree pathways, focusing on the beliefs and attitudes of young people, their parents, and their teachers. For those looking to pursue, or encourage someone to pursue, a nondegree pathway today, there are no easy answers. Information…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Young Adults, Beliefs, Parent Attitudes
Jobs for the Future, 2024
Today's young adults want and need a diverse array of education options, including, but not limited to, two- and four-year degrees to help them connect learning with earning. Young people and employers alike are eager for effective, efficient, work-aligned pathways to employment that enable people not just to say, "I know a lot, and here's…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Career Pathways, Career Choice, Young Adults
Taylor Maag; Brooke Valle; Mary Clagett – Jobs for the Future, 2024
Youth want workforce policies and programs that reflect their unique needs. If policymakers listen, they will create more inclusive opportunities that benefit communities, local businesses, and youth themselves. Jobs for the Future (JFF) held a series of focus groups with young people ages 16 to 24 focused on their career aspirations and…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Emerging Occupations, Futures (of Society), Labor Force Development
Sarah Jenness; Charlotte Cahill – Jobs for the Future, 2024
This brief examines employer demand for and the potential return on investment (ROI) of educational credentials in tech in order to support the design of equitable pathways that lead to quality jobs. Tech degrees consistently have a high ROI, especially in comparison with similar credentials in other industries. But education and workforce leaders…
Descriptors: Credentials, Employer Attitudes, Demand Occupations, Education Work Relationship
Cuevas, Erica; Rodrigue, Susannah; Aziz, Alyshah – Jobs for the Future, 2023
This paper outlines potential actions and roles for intermediaries to facilitate the development and implementation of truly equitable education-to-career pathways systems. Specifically, it could guide the broader field of intermediary organizations and efforts to engage in policy and advocacy by outlining how intermediaries can influence the…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Career Pathways, Educational Policy, Advocacy
Binder, Libuse – Jobs for the Future, 2023
Colorado is a state primed for blurring the lines between secondary, postsecondary, and workforce policies and programs to serve Colorado's young people better. The state has a growing economy, political leadership committed to advancing innovative, affordable education pathways, and a commitment from state agencies and state-based advocates that…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Education Work Relationship, Credentials
Sullivan, Felicia M. – Jobs for the Future, 2023
Jobs for the Future (JFF) and BigFuture want all students to have the sense of agency and purpose that comes with feeling hopeful, motivated, excited, confident. An essential step in achieving this is to ensure that high school students and their families receive a timely and abundant flow of information, resources, and advising in order to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Career Education, Career Choice
Bayerl, Katie – Jobs for the Future, 2023
How can two-year colleges ensure that all students can access quality career navigation opportunities that inform their studies and position them for meaningful, family-sustaining work? That is the challenge being addressed at Boston's Bunker Hill Community College through a college-wide initiative known as Ethnographies of Work (EoW). The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Programs, Program Implementation, Career Development
Joy, Lois; Tarbhai, Umair; Gordon, Melissa; Washington, Destiny; Juncos, Andrea – Jobs for the Future, 2023
Associate degrees and credentials in Information Technology (IT) have the potential to open up high-wage and high-opportunity labor market opportunities for learners. Yet structural barriers in access to and completion of these degrees and credentials continue to make it difficult for Black learners and workers to access and thrive in these…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Community Colleges, Community College Students, African American Students
Cuevas, Erica – Jobs for the Future, 2023
Jobs for the Future's (JFF) vision for the Big Blur calls for entirely new educational institutions and systems to better prepare 16-to-20-year-olds for college and careers. This paper examines the new type of governance needed to help states create more effective grade 11-14 schools and systems by erasing the arbitrary dividing line between high…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, College Readiness, Governance, Educational Development
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