Though organizations in the dataset consider themselves innovators in combining postsecondary credentials and work experience, they split almost evenly between those focused on college matriculation and those offering career-focused models.
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:įew programs strive for college and employment. 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. We found that the education-and-employment connection remains too tenuous in America. "Policymakers, employers, and educators must prioritize and scale programs that integrate work and learning." The applications provide an inside look at the interplay among short-term training providers, employers, colleges, and high schools.
The grant competition, launched by venture philanthropy New Profit, awarded $100,000 to social entrepreneurs who help young people from low-income communities launch promising careers. To understand the models and theories of change among training organizations, our research team at Harvard’s interdisciplinary Project on WorkforceĪnalyzed 316 applications to the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity initiative. This is an opportune moment to re-evaluate the country’s fundamental approach to human capital development. America’s fragmented systems of education and training have too often reinforced barriers between working and learning, rather than bridging the worlds of education and employment. The crisis has exacerbated existing inequities, and recent jobs gains reflect persistent disparities based on race, gender, age, and educational attainment.Ĭoming out of the crisis, providing more workers with pathways to economic stability will depend in large part on forging stronger connections between education and economic opportunity. Yet, the outlook for workers remains mixed. Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are hints of optimism as more people gain access to vaccines and the federal government injects more stimulus money into the economy.
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