Pathways to Graduation

Supporting All Students to Mastery A Retrospective Look at the Class of 2003

Jennifer Candon, Celine Coggins and S. Paul Reville

The aspirations of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act are ambitious, but clear — to provide every student with an opportunity to learn and achieve mastery at a high standard read more

Topic(s): Education, Strong Communities, New Skills for a New Economy

Getting the Job Done

Advancing the New Skills Agenda

John Schneider and Peter Kwass

Getting the Job Done: Advancing the New Skills Agenda draws from lessons learned through two years of MassINC’s New Skills for a New Economy Campaign and lays out critical reforms read more

Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, New Skills for a New Economy

The State of the American Dream in Massachusetts, 2002

Andy Sum, Nathan Pond, Mykhaylo Trub'skyy, Neeta Fogg, Abilasha Rao, Ishwar Khatiwada, Sheila Palma, Paul Harrington, Alex Plotkin, Jacqui Motroni and Gursel Aliyev

The new research finds that the path to economic success for Massachusetts families and workers is narrow and unforgiving, and those who stumble pay dearly. The report argues that the read more

Topic(s): Education, Jobs and Economic Security, Economic Development, New Skills for a New Economy, Research

New Skills for a New Economy

Adult Education's Key Role in Sustaining Economic Growth and Expanding Opportunity

Andy Sum, Mykhaylo Trub'skyy, Sheila Palma, John Comings, Johan Uvin, W. Neal Fogg, Maricel Santos and Lisa Soricone

According to this new groundbreaking report from MassINC, more than a third (1.1 million) of Massachusetts’s 3.2 million workers are ill equipped to meet the demands of the state’s rapidly read more

Topic(s): Education, Jobs and Economic Security, New Skills for a New Economy, Research

Opportunity Knocks

Training the Commonwealth's Workers for the New Economy

Ralph Whitehead, John D. Donahue and Lisa M. Lynch

With the recent passage of the Workforce Investment Act in Washington, states have more freedom than ever before to set their own objectives in job training policy and pursue creative read more

Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, New Skills for a New Economy

Closing the Gap

Raising Skills to Raise Wages

Edward Moscovitch

This report is a primer on the three vital rungs of our state’s workforce development system: adult basic education, job training programs, and our community college system. It received widespread read more

Topic(s): Education, Jobs and Economic Security, Economic Development, New Skills for a New Economy

Supporting All Students to Mastery A Retrospective Look at the Class of 2003

Advancing the New Skills Agenda

Adult Education's Key Role in Sustaining Economic Growth and Expanding Opportunity

Training the Commonwealth's Workers for the New Economy

Raising Skills to Raise Wages

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