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Workplace Basic: The Competencies Employers Want
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2020)
Workers need more than just their educational credentials to qualify for jobs that pay well, keep those jobs, secure promotions, and boost their earnings on the job. Workplace Basics: The Competencies Employers Want reveals ...
The Cost of Economic and Racial Injustice In Postsecondary Education
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
In partnership with the Postsecondary Value Commission, we conducted a thought experiment on the costs of inequality in the US education system. Our simulation found that the US economy misses out on $956 billion dollars ...
15 Million Infrastructure Jobs: An Economic Shot in the Arm to the COVID-19 Recession
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
A $2 trillion jobs plan (of which $1.5 trillion will go to infrastructure) from the Biden-Harris administration would be good medicine to nurse the economic wounds inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The infrastructure ...
Mission Not Accomplished: Unequal Opportunities and Outcomes for Black and Latinx Engineers
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
Engineering occupations are some of the highest-paying and most prestigious in the US labor market, but they are also some of the least diverse. Mission Not Accomplished: Unequal Opportunities and Outcomes for Black and ...
If Not Now, When? The Urgent Need for an All-One-System Approach to Youth Policy
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
If Not Now, When? The Urgent Need for an All-One-System Approach to Youth Policy makes the case that the United States’ disjointed approach to youth policy has failed young people. In the current fragmented system, pre-K–12, ...
Selective Bias Asian Americans, Test Scores, and Holistic Admissions
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
Selective Bias: Asian Americans, Test Scores, and Holistic Admissions evaluates the common arguments made by affirmative action critics and Students for Fair Admissions, which is suing Harvard University and has lawsuits ...
The College Payoff More Education Doesn’t Always Mean More Earnings
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
The College Payoff: More Education Doesn’t Always Mean More Earnings explores how lifetime earnings vary by education level, field of study, occupation, industry, gender, race and ethnicity, and location. The lifetime ...
Con Mis Hijos No Te Metas: “Disputas y Tensiones en Torno a la Implementación de la Educación Sexual Integral"
(Georgetown University, 2021)
La tesis aborda al movimiento CMHNTM, sistematizando información acerca de sus ejes de acción, los paradigmas que sostienen sus reivindicaciones, las características de sus referentes y de las personas que conforman el ...
The Impact of Access to the Internet on Citizen Involvement in Public Policy Decisions
(Georgetown University, 2021)
In its first few decades, the internet has provided a communication medium to connect businesses, governments, and individuals with each other in new ways and brought about a revolution in mass media. Governments, international ...