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Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

May 19, 2021 /

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Closing the gaps and reducing the frictions between completing one’s education and starting a job offers massive returns for workers, employers, and society at large.

We found that the education-and-employment connection remains too tenuous in America. To create more pathways to upward mobility in the post-COVID recovery, policymakers, employers, and educators must prioritize and scale programs that integrate work and learning. Our new white paper Working to Learn: Despite a growing set of innovators, America struggles to connect education and career explores several important trends from our analysis:

19 May 2021|by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

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