Apprenticeship America: an idea to reinvent postsecondary skills for the digital age

A crisis of human capital today is keeping millions of Americans from the opportunity to earn a good life. Employers' growing demand for skilled, well-paid workers is unmet, because - outside of the four-year college degree - postsecondary education is not sufficiently connected to the modern workplace. It is an industrial-era model failing to deliver in the digital age. Apprenticeships are a fitting solution to this problem - they allow workers to earn while they learn and provide skilled training inextricably driven by employer demand. For employers, apprenticeships provide a better-trained,... Show more

Authors: Amoyaw, May; Brown, David

Published: [Washington, District of Columbia], Third Way, 2018

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: [18] p. + 1 infographic

Access item: https://www.thirdway.org/report/apprenticeship-america-an-idea-to-reinvent-postsecondary-skills-for-the-digital-age

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