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In the job market, who you know can matter even more than what you know. But are schools helping students to develop networks and use them to advance their career goals?
This essay was originally published as part of the Center on Reinventing Public Education’s 2023 “State of the American Student” report. As part of the effort, CRPE asked 14 experts from various sectors to offer up examples of innovations, solutions or possible paths forward as education leaders navigate the current crisis. (See all the perspectives) […]
Journalists from WFYI, Indiana Public Broadcasting and Side Effects Public Media earned three Regional Edward R. Murrow awards for their work in 2021.
Listen to the broadcast version of this story. More than two dozen high schoolers in central Indiana are committing to a new two- to three-year paid apprenticeship program called the Modern Apprenticeship Program (MAP). It’s part of a nationally growing trend to give kids real-world career training and get them into the workforce. The students will be placed at 16 companies around Indianapolis – several of them with the workforce groups who designed the program, including local workforce board EmployIndy. Starting their junior year, students will spend part of each week in the classroom...