Building Tomorrow's Workforce Today: Twin Proposals for the Future of Learning, Opportunity, and Work. Policy Proposal 2020-15

Autor/inn/en	Arum, Richard; Stevens, Mitchell L.
Institution	Brookings Institution, Hamilton Project
Titel	Building Tomorrow's Workforce Today: Twin Proposals for the Future of Learning, Opportunity, and Work. Policy Proposal 2020-15
Quelle	(2020), (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; Labor Force Development; Equal Education; Distance Education; Adult Learning; Higher Education; Talent; Incentives; Educational Opportunities; Federal Programs; Instructional Innovation; Educational Change; Unemployment; Tax Credits; Educational Quality; Futures (of Society); Government School Relationship; Universities; Educational Policy; Partnerships in Education; Barriers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitskräftebestand; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Begabung; Hochbegabung; Anreiz; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Educational Innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Bildungsreform; Arbeitslosigkeit; Steuerermäßigung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Future; Society; Zukunft; University; Universität; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Hochschulpartnerschaft
Abstract	The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new urgency to chronic and interrelated educational challenges: the need to expand and equalize postsecondary access, reduce the sector's reliance on costly in-person instruction, and develop a cumulative science of adult learning. Current federal government college funding programs do not encourage schools to be cost-efficient or to build toward the future needs of the U.S. workforce, let alone respond to the acute learning needs brought about by the pandemic. Yet U.S. higher education is an intrinsically adaptive ecosystem, rich with instructional and scientific talent; with the right incentives the ecosystem could quickly produce the flexible, affordable, and effective learning opportunities the nation needs. We propose twin federal government initiatives to incentivize innovation in instructional delivery throughout the national postsecondary ecology, to bridge the divide between academia and the workforce system, and to accrete a cumulative science of adult learning. Under the first initiative, the federal government issues Learning Opportunity Credits (LOCs) to all U.S. adults who are either unemployed or who receive the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). LOCs will promote ongoing workforce training as well as the expansion of high-quality hybrid learning opportunities. Under the second initiative, the federal government establishes a national project on the Future of Learning, Opportunity, and Work (FLOW), a distributed collaboration between existing federal agencies and a network of competitively selected U.S. universities and their partners. FLOW will accumulate knowledge and inform policy on adult learning to serve the national interest moving forward. Packaged as dual initiatives and linked through data sharing and interoperability protocols, LOCs and FLOW are joint ventures. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01