Springboard Project's Recommendations for American Workforce

As I've talked about before, one of the most exciting projects I've worked on this year is with the Obama administration's Department of Labor.  As part of the Springboard Project, I've participated in developing six recommendations to help American workers get the skills they and our businesses need to fill today’s and tomorrow’s jobs.  Today, we're releasing them to the media.  They are:

1. Create Incentives to Build a Better Educated Workforce

Increase postsecondary education and training attainment rates to meet market demand and provide personal opportunity by rewarding institutions and individuals.

2. Develop Nationally Recognized Workforce Certifications and Credentials

Empower students and workers by creating nationally portable workforce skill credentials that are credible to educators and valued by employers.

3. Communicate Timely and Consumer-Friendly Information to Workers

Provide valuable labor market and related education information in ways that are easily accessible, understandable, and timely.

4. Bring 21^st-Century Innovation to Education and Training

Reinvent the delivery systems of postsecondary education and training to get better and more cost effective outcomes for more people.

5. Unlock the Power of Community Colleges and Two-Year Institutions 

Build on the untapped potential of community colleges to encourage more people to embrace postsecondary education and to revitalize local economies.

6. Foster Lifelong Learning

Encourage a new mindset that values lifelong learning as an essential priority for personal and national success.

As part of these recommendations, I will be working with the Business Roundtable to develop a Workforce 101 online training course for high school and college students.  Stay tuned, and please send any suggestions my way!

Comments

[Jason]

This is a great site you have here man. A simple search for college blogs on Google did the trick. I have a college blog myself, which is relatively new, but I'm hoping that it becomes a useful contribution to the college blogging community. I'd like to exchange links with you to help spread some traffic around between each other. We college bloggers need to stick together.

Jason
COLLEGEtickr.com

[Alexandra Levit]

@Jason: Great to meet you! I'll be sure to check out your blog!