Accelerate ED: Leading Students to Better Jobs
While the United States is more educated than ever, only approximately 25 percent of adults currently received a bachelor’s degree and about half an industry-recognized certification after high school.
While the United States is more educated than ever, only approximately 25 percent of adults currently received a bachelor’s degree and about half an industry-recognized certification after high school.
This past spring, ESG launched a new line of work focused on social capital development. Across the U.S., we are working with different communities to incorporate social capital into their current college and career pathways work. Each community is building...
What if every high school student had the chance to take an additional year of courses related to their interests? What if they could earn enough credits to complete their associate degree one year after high school while gaining valuable...
How Accelerate ED design teams are building essential opportunities for all students to earn postsecondary credentials
Last year, Ford announced plans to build BlueOval City, a $5.6 billion mega campus that will produce next generation electric vehicles and batteries, in western Tennessee. The move will create 6,000 jobs in the region and has the potential to...
Two years ago this month, the world as we knew it changed. As schools and economies shuttered across the globe in response to the coronavirus pandemic, it quickly became clear that the impacts of this crisis would reverberate for years...
It’s a time-old question that every high school student faces at one point or another: What are you doing next? With a wider variety of postsecondary pathways than ever before, it’s critical that students and their families understand the full...
A significant portion of our work at Education Strategy Group (ESG) is focused on the improvement and modernization of career pathways as drivers of economic mobility. But what about career pathways within the field of education itself? In the effort...
As I reflect on what we hope the Biden administration will accomplish and, more specifically, how I think the education agenda needs to be defined, there is one topic that receives a lot of airplay but is historically poor in...
Perhaps like many of you, these days I often find myself searching for a path forward. With many daunting challenges facing our country, it feels difficult to find a helpful role to play, and I look for ways to step...
Earlier today, JPMorgan Chase announced that six U.S. cities – Boston, Columbus, Dallas, Indianapolis and Nashville, as well as previously-announced Denver – will receive career readiness investments as part of the firm’s $75 million global commitment to better prepare young...
The economic destruction and severe educational disruption caused by COVID-19 will have ramifications for years to come. Many lives and many people’s futures are at risk. The actions we take in the months ahead to reposition education systems to serve...