A Sharper Focus on Technical Workers: How to Educate and Train for a Global Economy – How to Educate and Train for the Global Economy, National Governors Association Center for Best Practices.

“The report outlines actions governors can take to shape a new future for job training in a way that will nurture the largest and fastest-growing industries, including:

• Champion the importance of technical education and technical work to economic competitiveness and worker prosperity;
• Focus first on the industrial sectors with the greatest economic impact;
• Use state spending to encourage community colleges to engage in collaboration and innovation;
• Develop multi-state partnerships focused on providing consistent, high-quality, industry-valued training; and
• Require comprehensive outcome data to assess students’ skills and credentials gained, hold educational institutions accountable and inform policymakers.”
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