WASHINGTON, DC—The Center for American Progress released two new papers that lay out policy recommendations for an innovation process that addresses the access, learning, and completion needs of disconnected youth and working adults:
“Creating Postsecondary Pathways to Good Jobs for Young High School Dropouts: The Possibilities and the Challenges,” by Linda Harris and Evelyn Ganzglass.
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“Federal Access Policies and Higher Education for Working Adults,” by Derek V. Prince and Angela Bell.
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The baby boomer generation’s looming retirement and the requirement of college-level skills to compete in today’s fast-changing economic landscape have recharged our public dialogue about postsecondary education. However, this dialogue focuses too much on making college affordable and not enough about making sure students finish their degrees.
These problems demand approaches for college access and success. In particular, the college access and degree completion challenges of out-of-school youth and working adults are miner’s canaries. That is, they point to the innovations that are needed to make our system of postsecondary education student-focused and able to deliver custom learning experiences across agencies and institutions to yield student success.
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