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In celebration of National Apprenticeship Week, November 13-19, 2017, President Trump proclaimed, We recognize the important role apprenticeships play in unleashing the American workforce....

Everyone who has a smartphone should be able to have a smart career, keynote speaker Zoe Baird said to a packed room at The Forum 2017, presented by the National Association of Workforce...

When it comes to investments in training and education, states have several streams of funding. Workforce training programs for organizations, investments in elementary and secondary...

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The ATD Public Policy Council has released a new edition of Bridging the Skills Gap, the associations whitepaper on the skills gap and the important role talent development professionals...

Career and technical education (CTE) programs are vital to overcoming the skills gap. For this reason, the Association for Talent Development joined more than 300 other organizations in...

June 30 Update: On June 25, WIOA passed the United States Senate by a near-unanimous vote of 95-3 and will next move to the House of Representatives for a vote, though the timing is unclear...

A major facet of the bill requires states to submit one plan covering workforce development and training, and that they use a single set of performance metrics to evaluate the success of...

This report is the fourth from ASTD to cover the growing importance of talent to organizational performance and the skills gap that threatens so many organizations today. The 2012 edition...

On March 15, the U.S. House of Representativesthrough a vote of 215-202passed HR 803, The SKILLS Act (Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills). As passed in the House, The...

As part of The American Taxpayer Relief Act (HR 8), the legislation passed by Congress to avoid a fiscal cliff and maintain tax cuts and long-term unemployment benefits among other...

ASTD is interested in gathering brief case studies from organizations that have addressed skills gaps within their workforce, especially those in high demand industries. Case studies will...

As I have mentioned many times in my blog posts, ASTD members who engage in the public workforce system have access and information to many opportunities for the organizations. From serving...

On Thursday, June 7, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce approved The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 (H.R. 4297) to reauthorize the...

ASTD has been following the activities of the Workforce Investment Act reauthorization. The bill would: Accelerate the adoption of industry and sectorbased partnerships, which would engage...

At a seminar sponsored by the Public Manager Journal and Federal Special Interest Group of the D.C. Chapter of ASTD, diversity expert Mauricio Velasquez explained that diversity training...

In March 2011, GovLoopa vibrant online community connecting more than 50,000 public sector professionalsset out to explore the creation of a government-wide mentoring program. The timeline...

Since participating in the public workforce system many years ago, I can see the successes that both the organization and individuals have achieved working through it. The National...

As part of the $858 billion tax package passed by Congress and signed by President Obama on December 17, employers and employees will continue to receive a tax break on their tuition...

As many of you already know, the public workforce system (run by local and state workforce boards) currently spends billions annually on a variety of skill training programs. A couple of...