Education & Workforce Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Creating a Public System of National Laboratory Schools The U.S. should establish a system of National Laboratory Schools in parallel to its existing system of FFRDCs.
Education & Workforce Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Improving Graduate-Student Mentorship by Investing in Traineeship Grants The federal government should build on the success of the NIH’s training-grant program to support STEMM graduate students & U.S. R&D.
Education & Workforce Investing in Apprenticeships to Fill Labor-Market Talent and Opportunity Gaps Strengthening the U.S. apprenticeship system will close labor gaps in industries and roles of critical national importance.
Education & Workforce Technical Talent Strategies to Build Capacity, Accelerate Priorities, and Drive Change This is a historic opportunity, driven by critical need, to bolster and reinvigorate the federal talent pipeline.
Education & Workforce Making the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program Work for the New Economy Rethinking the Trade Adjustment Assistance program’s upskilling and training component from the ground up.
Education & Workforce Incorporating Health and Safety Data in CareerOneStop Websites to Optimize Career-change Guidance To enable transitioning workers, the DOL should update its career guidance tools to include data on health and safety risks.
Education & Workforce Technology Policy Using AI and Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality to Deliver Tailored and Effective Jobs Training To address continuous labor market transformation and automation, all Americans need to have access to agile and effective jobs training.
Education & Workforce Technology Policy Improving Data Infrastructure to Meet Student and Learner Information Needs A renewed commitment to modernizing the SLDS data infrastructure and to the students these systems serve is needed.
Education & Workforce Doubling the R&D Capacity of the Department of Education The time is now to transform the research arm of the Education Department into an innovative, novel space to improve education outcomes.