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Promising Approaches for Connecting Opportunity Youth to Registered Apprenticeships
Through an Apprenticeship Expansion and Modernization Fund (AEMF) contract with the U.S. Department of Labor, JFF has been working with community-based organizations, opportunity youth-focused intermediary organizations affiliated with the Aspen Institute Opportunity Youth Forum, workforce development boards, and school districts across the country to expand access to Registered Apprenticeships to opportunity youth. This online resource explores promising approaches and highlights examples of activities and strategies that are producing results in the short term.
Surgeon general warns of emerging youth mental health crisis in rare public advisory
Citing mounting evidence of ongoing harm, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy issued a public health advisory on the mental health challenges confronting youth, a rare warning and call to action to address what he called an emerging crisis exacerbated by pandemic hardships.
Micro-Credentials: Why They were Developed, What They Offer, and How They are Recognized
Join The Hunt Institute to learn what led to interest in micro-credentials as a way to strengthen educator knowledge and practice. The session will then shift to the key components, benefits and challenges of creating and providing micro-credentials, including how teachers are recognized for earning micro-credentials.
Teachers of the Year (TOY) Equitable Innovation Grant Program
Teachers of the Year (TOY) Equitable Innovation Grant Program supports and spotlights the incredible efforts that teachers take on behalf of their students every day. Grants will be awarded to educators that demonstrate the dedication, innovation, and creativity that are the hallmarks of the LA County Teachers of the Year Program. The grant opportunity is open to all educators in LA County’s public schools including counselors, club leaders, and more. Teachers from all grade levels and all subject areas are encouraged to apply.
Uncertainty lurks as college leaders eye end of federal relief funding
Colleges face an uncertain long-term outlook as prospects for state funding remain unclear, enrollment challenges loom and coronavirus-related threats continue, according to research from think tank New America and summarizes interviews earlier this year with administrators at non-elite colleges.
Coding and barbering event aims to broaden Black student participation in computer science
Students in South Carolina are learning a unique approach to barbering by coding hair designs in their barbershop class.
What Good Social-Emotional Learning Should Look Like: First, Listen to the Community
Aaliyah A. Samuel, the deputy assistant secretary for local, state, and national engagement for the U.S. Department of Education, spoke with Education Week about the challenges and opportunities facing social emotional learning at this unique time.
With standardized testing out, what’s next for University of California admissions?
The University of California’s historic move to abandon standardized exams may not be the last of changes coming to the admissions process for the public university system.
Can Connections Between Data Systems Propel Economic Recovery? Three States Say Yes.
It is vital that all stakeholders — from learners and workers to educators, employers, and policymakers — better understand the education and training programs designed to meet labor market needs, writes Alison Griffin.