Students Want Career Education. More Research Can Improve It, New Report Says

Policymakers in Congress and the Trump administration should make career-connected learning a key part of the federal education research agenda, a coalition of more than 130 organizations recommends in a detailed new report.

“The federal government is uniquely positioned to make the sustained investments needed to identify and disseminate which career-connected learning strategies work, for whom, and in what conditions,” says the document released June 9 by the Alliance for Learning Innovation during a briefing on Capitol Hill.

The report says there is a “relevance gap,” or “a disconnect between what students learn and what they need to learn to thrive in the workforce.” Read more from Education Week.