SALT LAKE CITY (Dec. 13, 2022) – Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced the state’s efforts to eliminate the requirement for bachelor’s degrees in its employee recruitment and emphasized similar support by local governments and the private sector.
“Degre...
On his first full day in office, Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, signed his first executive order, removing a four-year degree requirement for tens of thousands of state government jobs.
Shapiro — who took the oath of office on Tuesday with Lt. Gov...
The Alabama Talent Triad is in pilot mode, engaging employers now. The objective: enrich the triad with skills-based jobs, applying an intentional focus on manufacturing and healthcare sectors. Using the skills-based job description generator makes...
STANFORD, CA and PRINCETON, NJ (April 17, 2023) —The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and ETS today announced a new partnership designed to radically transform education assessment across the United States. In collaboration with...
The labor market needs education to evolve. That’s where CTE comes in
By Anthony P. Carnevale — April 28, 2023
For the last several decades, our educational system has been carefully molded to usher students from prekindergarten to college. Our...
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today signed an executive order which builds upon Ohio's nation-leading efforts to be a model employer in skill-based hiring practices. The skill-based hiring movement focuses on specific coursework, skills...
Evidence from Colorado and Ohio
Federal, state, and local initiatives have encouraged education and training providers to build stackable credentials, a series of postsecondary credentials that can be earned over time and that build on each...
It was the summer of 2014 when it hit me. At the time, I was leading Gallup’s education and workforce development practice and we had just gotten on our hands on the most insight-rich dataset on college graduates ever. We learned that the ‘magic’ of...
Having a college degree doesn’t automatically make a candidate more qualified for every role, particularly roles that are skills-focused. Anyone who’s been actively involved in hiring and developing talent knows that in a practical sense, but in the...
NEW ORLEANS — Any effort to measure the value of education and training is sure to face serious blowback. So it’s not surprising that the core message from groups behind a project to gauge the quality and economic payoff of...