Combining Work and Learning

Louis Soares, Director of Postsecondary Education Program at Center for American Progress, discusses how to create conditions for workers to combine working and educational attainment.

About This Video Project

During the week of March 2010, CSW staff partnered with the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) to engage attendees at the organization's Annual Forum (http://www.nawb.org/forum/). We (Melodee Mabbitt and Kristin Wolff, CSW) conducted informal video interviews with a random sample of about 25 of the 1,800 conference participants, comprising executive staff and members of workforce boards. We asked them about: key priorities and challenges, issues they were interested in learning about, and thoughts on what they'd heard or experienced at the conference.

Jobs (job shortages, job creation, entrepreneurship, and Federal Jobs legislation) was the central issue on their minds. The "green energy economy" and training partnerships also emerged as important themes.

We then conducted similarly informal video interviews with 10 policy professionals, thought leaders, and experts working on jobs, green energy, and training issues in Washington DC - these individuals represent a wide variety of policy, political, and economic perspectives.

This video is is one of a collection that resulted from this project.

The intent of NAWB and CSW is to share the individual clips with our partners, stakeholders, and communities as we advance a work, learning, and sustainable prosperity agenda. We will also be developing subject specific montages that we will add to this collection in the next month or so. Finally, we will share the clips with the individuals and organizations who were gracious enough to participate in hopes they will find valuable ways to use them in their own work.

We're glad you are here, and encourage you to use and share them, too.

If you have questions or just want to drop us a line, we can be reached at:
mmabbitt@skilledwork.org
kristinwolff@mac.com

For more information about how we at CSW use video in policy work, see our white paper on the subject here: http://www.slideshare.net/kwolff/documentary-policy-final

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News & Politics

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• Center for American Progress
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• Learning
• Education
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