Where we started Twenty-five years ago, GPS Education Partners (GPS Ed) was founded on a simple but powerful idea: education and industry working together to create meaningful career pathways for ...

The Weld RE-5J School District continues to incorporate ways for Roosevelt High School’s construction pathway students to “build up” their work-based learning skills. This includes a new hands-on ...

In the K-12 and postsecondary education landscape, learning methods continue to evolve to prepare students for success in the workforce. Amidst this progress, one approach that stands out for its ...

State and regional associations can help build colleges' capacity for work-based learning, including internships, apprenticeships, and project-based capstones. Creating hands-on, work-based learning ...

As work-based learning models grow in popularity, a new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) highlights key themes in recently-passed state legislation that will support efforts to ...

A large kitchen inside the Gaylord Rockies Hotel & Convention Center may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a classroom. Yet that's exactly what one of the Gaylord's kitchens ...

Policymakers must work alongside educators and industry leaders to develop high-quality, equitable work-based learning models that bring these opportunities to more students. These are all examples of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover workforce, science and industrial policy, and labor topics. Edward (EJ) Ishman, an instructor at Central New Mexico ...

With real employer partnerships, Riipen brings work-based learning beyond the limits of traditional internships.

“I can’t find people with the right skills to do the jobs I have available.” Among its members, the following organizations offer opportunities for employers to connect directly with work-learning ...

High school student Vance Dudley and Principal Eric Kilburn record podcasts at a studio located at Sioux City's Career Academy. Students of the Career Academy can study more than 30 different pathways ...

School districts in every state now have the green light to establish competency-based education programs and models in their classrooms—but they have a lot of work to do on the operational side to ...