| Author(s): | Duke, A., and Strawn, J |
| Title: | Overcoming obstacles, optimizing opportunities: State policies to increase postsecondary attainment for low-skilled adults |
| Source: | http://www.jff.org/Documents/BTpolicyoverview.pdf |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Organization: | Jobs for the Future |
| Short Description: | This report is part of the Breaking Through Initiative, designed to help community colleges identify and develop
institutional strategies that can enable low-skilled
adult students to enter into and succeed in occupational
and technical degree programs at community
colleges. The report outlines six key tasks policymakers can use to increase the number of low-skilled adults that succeed at the community college level and enter the labor force with a postsecondary credential. |
| Annotation: | State policymakers can harness the power of the community college to address issues of economic growth and individual prosperity. To do so, they must address six key tasks: create a shared vision of the state's economic vision among stakeholders in education, workforce development, and economic development, set measurable goals for achieving the vision, including increasing college access for lower-skilled adults, track individual outcomes from workforce development education services into the labor market, help community colleges connect with local employers, overhaul the content and delivery of adult education, ESL coursework, and college remediation to accelerate progress and connect these services to occupational pathways, and create and expand more flexible financial aid policies and more personalized academic and career counseling to improve adult student success in college. |
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