Pilot Projects to Aim at Workforce Issues
States form partnerships to experiment with ideas in 'Tough Times' report.
Three states have agreed to take part in a high-profile commission’s effort to create pilot programs aimed at creating new approaches to public education that would help keep the United States internationally competitive.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Utah are the first states to form partnerships with the Washington-based New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, which will fund projects based on the recommendations in its 2006 report,
“Tough Choices or Tough Times.”
The Oct. 30 announcement is the first tangible effort to implement some of the actions recommended by the document, which called for a bold redesign of the nation’s education and training systems. ( "U.S. Urged to Reinvent Its Schools," ...
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