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TPM Resource Guide: A Compendium for High-Quality CTE

Center for Education and Workforce
May 6, 2020
TPM Resource Guide: A Compendium for High-Quality CTE
Leaders across sectors are investing time and resources in forward-looking models to address our workforce challenges for the talent we need now and into the future. One key component of this is building stronger partnerships between employers and the CTE community—bridging the communication divide by providing each with an orientation of the other. This resource guide serves not only as an introduction to the TPM framework, but that more CTE systems and programs can begin leveraging and benefiting from this authentically employer-led movement.
Education
K-12 Education
Talent Pipeline Management
Workforce Training
Youth Employment

Coronavirus Response & Resources

General Foundation
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The U.S. Chamber Foundation stands ready to help communities navigate the significant challenges they are facing in a time of great uncertainty. Like any major natural disaster, the coronavirus will have a significant impact on workers, businesses, and the economy. The leadership of the business community has never been more important than in times of crisis.

Disaster Response
Education
Emerging Issues

Billion Dollar Problem: Working Parents Leave Workforce, Postpone School Due to Childcare Challenges

Center for Education and Workforce
February 28, 2020
The Billion Dollar Problem
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Building on the work of other states, we partnered with the business communities in Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania and their early education partners to understand just how much breakdowns in childcare cost each state. In this study we looked at the causes of childcare challenges as well as motivations behind why parents select various childcare providers. Knowing many employers want to facilitate more access to childcare but do not know where to begin, we sought to learn what types of childcare benefits working parents desire most from employers.

Data
Early Childhood Education
Education

CCR&R: Helping Families, Improving Quality, and Building Supply of Childcare

Center for Education and Workforce
February 20, 2020
CCR&R in America
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A two-generation approach is needed to ensure today’s workforce can make productive contributions now, while tomorrow’s workforce is prepared and positioned to take on what the future holds. America’s need for high-quality, affordable childcare is so great, it will take efforts by all of us to make the system work. Child Care Aware® of America discusses the grassroots effort of CCR&Rs.
Jen Bump, Senior Advisor, Child Care Aware of America
Community Improvement
Early Childhood Education
Education

A 2020 Vision: The Future of Economic and Workforce Development in South Carolina

Center for Education and Workforce
February 27, 2020
20/20 Vision in South Carolina
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Nancy Lee Sánchez, Executive Director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, recently examined the important purpose community colleges serve in the future of workforce development. A key point made is “community colleges are defined differently by those who enroll in them”, in other words, people view community colleges as a pathway towards different goals.
Chief Etheridge
Community Improvement
Education
Postsecondary Education
Workforce Training

Upskilling & Reskilling to Remain Competitive

Center for Education and Workforce
February 6, 2020
Upskilling with TPM
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In today’s labor market, long-term talent strategies are often over-shadowed by the critical short-term needs of today and tomorrow. While immediate hiring needs are often the most pressing issues for HR departments, strategies like TPM can help businesses solve these common pain points—such as unfilled job openings, exorbitant training and onboarding costs, and attrition—and talent gaps collaboratively.  
Joe Quick
Education
Postsecondary Education
Talent Pipeline Management
Workforce Training

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