Paul Fain

A recent analysis found promising initial results, with wage gains for completers and evidence that students are stacking up multiple credentials, which pays off even better in the job market.

We’re launching a digital hub for news, analysis, and opinion about whether education and training are delivering the talent and opportunity society needs.

The pandemic is adding momentum to new partnerships and models for alternative credentials.

One in five employed American adults with a bachelor’s degree lacks important skills in literacy, with one in three falling below proficient levels in numeracy.

Dandelion Energy has hit licensing snags, geography challenges, and limits on local training as it tries to hire workers to drill the wells for its heat pumps.

Advocates for alternative education pathways also work to make sure participants in non-college programs can earn college credit.

Demand for non-degree, career-focused, and skill-based post-secondary education was growing rapidly before the pandemic, 2U’s ceo said, and that’s only grown.

The nation doesn’t have a labor shortage, one expert says. But it certainly has an opportunity gap and a dysfunctional labor market.

Tech jobs aren’t the center of the Biden workforce proposals, but that doesn’t mean demand for those skills has waned.