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• Learning While Earning: The New Normal - 2015 - Center on Education and the Workforce - Georgetown University (posted 10/29/15)
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• Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills - November 2014 - Accenture, Burning Glass and the Harvard Business School (posted 09/13/15)
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• Teen Views on Tech Careers - February 2015 - Creating IT Futures Foundation (posted 06/19/15)
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• The Second Year of Accelerating Opportunity, Implementation Findings from the States and Colleges - March 2015 - Urban Institute (posted 06/03/15)
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• The Economic Value of College Majors - May 2015 - Center on Education and the Workforce (posted 05/08/15)
• WIOA Program Strategies - April 2015 - California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB) (posted 05/05/15)
• From College to Jobs: Making Sense of Labor Market Returns to Higher Education - April 2015 - The Aspen Institute (posted 04/27/15)
• The Second Year of Accelerating Opportunity: Implementation Findings From the States and Colleges - March, 2015 - Urban Institute (posted 04/27/15)
• Shifting Workforce Development into High Gear: How Economic Developers Lead Workforce System Alignment - 2015 - Economic Development Research Partners (posted 03/13/15)
• Career Pathways - Approaches for the Delivery of Education, Training, Employment, and Human Services - February 2015 - Summary of Responses to a Request for Information by the U.S. Department of Education (posted 03/12/15)
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• Regional Cross-System Education Partnerships and the Need for Supportive State Policies - March 2015 - Education Insights Center (posted 03/05/15)
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• Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America’s Middle Skills - Harvard Business School (posted 02/24/15)
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• From Hard Times to Better Times: College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings - February 2015 - Center on Education and the Workforce (posted 02/24/15)
• Missing in Action: Job-Driven Educational Pathways for Youth and Adults - February 2015 - National Skills Coalition (posted 02/13/15)
• America's Advanced Industries: What they are, Where they are, and Why they Matter - February 2015 - Brookings Advanced Industries Project (posted 02/05/15)
• College Is Just the Beginning: The Employer Role in $1.1 Trillion Postsecondary Education and Training System - 2015 - Center on Education and the Workforce - Georgetown University (posted 02/05/15)
• Investing in California’s Workforce - Governor's Budget Summary - 2015-16 (posted 02/02/15)
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• The workforce crisis of 2030 - and how to start solving it now - October 2014 - Rainer Strack - TED@BCG Berlin (posted 01/26/15)
• A Resource Guide to Engaging Employers - Randall Wilson - Jobs for the Future (posted 01/19/15)
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• Success in Real-Time: Using Real-Time Labor Market Information to Build Better Middle-Skill STEM Pathways - Ian Rosenblum and Christopher Spence - Jobs for the Future (posted 01/19/15)
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• Career Pathways - A Route to Upward Mobility - December 2014 - Robert Schwartz and Nancy Hoffman, Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Education for Upward Mobility Conference (posted 01/06/15)
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