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Inspired by Doing: Entrepreneurial Education Helps Kids Find the “Why” in School
For many decades, school has been the place for getting theoretical education, and work experience happened later–in the workplace. If a kid had an entrepreneurial idea, it couldn’t come to fruition unless they were really motivated, well-connected, and had a lot of extra time outside of school to ideate, network, and tinker. Today, though, there’s…
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Intermediaries: The Behind-the-Scenes Magic Makers of Tech Work-based Learning
An intermediary is an organization or entity that facilitates collaboration between educational institutions, aspiring workers, and industry partners, ensuring smooth work-based learning opportunities can be developed and scaled for more people and in more communities. Intermediaries are well-known in the apprenticeship world, where businesses often need a helping hand getting an apprenticeship program up and…
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Believing in the Potential of a Career Readiness Utopia
At this year’s ASU+GSV conference, Tom Vander Ark of Getting Smart moderated a panel that focused on a reimagining of the education system to be more agile and to better prepare students for the careers ahead of them. He was joined by Joshua Garcia of Tacoma Public Schools, Gary Hoachlander of ConnectED, Kristie Vanauken of…
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Youth Work-Based Learning: Trends, Benefits, and Opportunities for Students and Employers
Research shows that less than half of respondents who identified as members of Generation Z said they had enough information to decide what post-high school pathway was best for them. Career readiness programs, including internships, cooperative education and pre and youth apprenticeships, that give students the opportunity to learn through work and gain real-world experience…
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Success, Redefined: Navigating a New Postsecondary Landscape
For the past few years we’ve joined forces with Jobs for the Future (JFF) and research firm Morning Consult to learn more about the trends and policies shaping and influencing career readiness, and to better understand how Gen Z thinks about postsecondary pathways. Julie Lammers, ASA’s SVP of Advocacy and Corporate Social Responsibility, recently joined…
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Harnessing AI Tech to Prepare Youth for Career Success
At this year’s ASU+GSV Summit, Lee Waldvogel, ASA’s Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, moderated a panel about a topic that’s on everyone’s mind: artificial intelligence. The panelists convened to explore a use-case for AI that’s not commonly discussed – using it to prepare young people for their postsecondary education and career pathways. Lee was joined…
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Spotlight on the Trades: My Chat with the Rocky Mountain Mechanical Contractors Association
I recently joined John Ekstrom on Tradeswork: The Rocky Mountain Mechanical Contractors Association Podcast. While the platform caters to a specific niche of the workforce, it’s representative of the challenges shared by all of the skilled trades. Highlighting the career readiness work happening in specific trades around the country, will give students the information they…
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Free to Dream: How I was Inspired by the Words of Award-Winning Artist Common
Today, some 5.5 million young people are neither in school nor the workforce and another 728,000 young people are classified as justice involved. Why are there so very many kids who fall into these life-altering categories? The reality is that American kids don’t have enough opportunities in school to dream, plan, experiment, and learn about…
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Investing in the Next Generation of the Workforce
At this year’s Transform24 conference, I joined my esteemed peers Blair Bennett of PepsiCo, Michael Yang of OMERS Ventures, and Jolen Anderson of BetterUp in a panel moderated by Virginie Raphael, the founder of FullCircle. We came together on the stage to talk about breaking old workforce cycles that no longer work, and building stronger…
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Revolutionizing Youth Career Readiness: ASA’s Impact in 2023 & Beyond
At American Student Assistance® (ASA), every day is an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of young learners. In 2023, we hit a significant milestone, touching the lives of over 15 million students. How did we achieve this? By expanding access to vital career readiness resources and opportunities, empowering students to make informed…
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