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By Paul Fain

A weekly newsletter about connections between education and the American workforce. Get a veteran journalist’s take on what to watch as postsecondary education and job training systems work to better serve lower-income learners and workers.

Previous issues

The Job: Degree Requirements

#27 Sep 23, 2021

The Job: Free College for Workers

#26 Sep 16, 2021

The Job: Maps to Degrees

#25 Sep 9, 2021

#24

Sep 2, 2021

The Job: Performance Funding – This week’s issue looks at labor market results in performance funding, including an aggressive new F
#23

Aug 26, 2021

The Job: Wraparound Supports – Welcome back. This week’s issue looks at One Million Degrees, a promising model for helping community
#22

Aug 19, 2021

The Job: A ‘Civic Endeavor’ – Hello! This week's issue looks at a broad science project on working learners that Stanford and the N
#21

Aug 12, 2021

The Job: Working Learners – This issue looks at how the Coursera-powered iMBA from Illinois is faring and why Target and Walmart
#20

Aug 5, 2021

The Job: Work Shift on Infrastructure – This week is a Work Shift takeover. We look at Colorado’s move to retroactively award associate degre
#19

Jul 29, 2021

The Job: Nondegree Credentials – Hello! This week’s edition looks at how continuing education units at research universities may be po
#18

Jul 22, 2021

The Job: Competency-Based Education – Welcome back. This week’s issue explores whether competency-based education may finally get its momen
#17

Jul 15, 2021

The Job: Workforce Development – Hello! This week’s issue looks at research on Ohio’s short-term credentials, Fast Track certificates
#16

Jul 1, 2021

The Job: High-Demand Fields – This week’s issue looks at workforce training at community colleges, including new data on Virginia’s
#15

Jun 24, 2021

The Job: Work Shift – This week we announce a new digital publication, Work Shift. Coverage includes on-the-ground perspect
#14

Jun 17, 2021

The Job: Last-Mile Training – This issue looks at scale in workforce training, a new health-care partnership designed for stackabil
#13

Jun 10, 2021

The Job: Skills and Employability – Welcome back. This week’s issue looks at data on millions of college grads who lack literacy skills,
#12

Jun 3, 2021

The Job: Short-Term Training – This week's issue looks at a geothermal company's struggle to hire drillers, how youth employment may
#11

May 27, 2021

The Job: Stacking to a Degree – This week’s issue looks at college credit for noncollege programs, defining quality with short-term c
#10

May 20, 2021

The Job: Non-Degree Hiring and Promotion – Welcome back. This week's edition looks at 2U's bet on alternative credentials and how Bank of Americ
#9

May 13, 2021

The Job: Rethinking Careers – Thanks for clicking. This week's issue looks at the debate over labor shortages and job training, as
#8

May 6, 2021

The Job: Tech Cred – This week's issue looks at SAS credentials, demographic drought and job market data, and how allied h

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