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The World Education's National College Transition Network (NCTN) team is assessing the workforce training programs for teens and young adults in Brookline, MA. This assessment is the first step in identifying strategies and developing the action plan needed to ensure that youth have the skills needed to be successful in a career of their choice….
Millions of Americans are employed but lack key literacy, numeracy, or technology-related skills that would enable them to achieve economic mobility. The issue is especially acute in the service sector where 20 million people lack key foundational skills. World Education is a partner in Building the Foundation a new initiative led by the National Skills…
One of the challenges in Timor-Leste is the ability of farmers to manage the pest and disease challenges to crop production, and to understand and manage the costs and benefits of those management options. Therefore improving farmer skills in managing pests and disease by considering health and the environment alongside increased yields and cost efficiency…
Many adolescent girls and young women lack a full range of opportunities and are too often devalued because of gender bias, leading them to be seen as unworthy of investment or protection. Social isolation, economic disadvantage, discriminatory cultural norms, orphanhood, gender-based violence, and school drop-out all contribute to girls’ vulnerability to HIV. The DREAMS program…
In Massachusetts, more than one-third of the state’s 3.2 million workers do not have the skills required to perform in the state’s rapidly changing economy and need adult basic education services. World Education's collaboration with Sidekim Foods in Lynn, MA is bridging that gap for the workers at Sidekim Foods through on-site English language classes….
The LINCS Professional Development Center provides technical assistance to states’ adult education professional development systems to meet requirements under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA); offers high-quality, evidence-based instructional resources through the LINCS Resource Collection; and facilitates professional development training opportunities for adult educators. This project is in partnership with Manhattan Strategy Group.
Many immigrants who want to study English can't. Funding for adult education classes is limited, so programs that offer English as a second language (ESL) classes are often full and can’t always offer seats to all who need one. Many programs have anywhere from 60 to 600 adults on a waiting list for English classes…
World Education, Inc. continues to guide the pilot implementation of mentoring programs in a subset of the Graduation and Outcomes for Success for Out-of-School Youth's (GOSOSY) Consortium’s 17 member states, utilizing, adapting, and customizing the mentoring model framework and resources from the Mentoring Toolkit. The year-one pilot states include Massachusetts, North Carolina, Nebraska, and Tennessee….
Each day 1,500-2,000 individuals leave Nepal for labor migration. The majority of migrants are young men who have dropped out of school; however, there is a small but increasing number of women who also migrate for foreign employment. Migration brings with it the promise of better jobs and salaries, but also the risk of abuse…
In Ghana, according to the WHO, over 13,000 deaths occur each year as a result of exposure to household air pollution (HAP) or indoor air pollution (IAP) and more than 21 million people are impacted by exposure to HAP each year. To address Ghana's long-standing energy challenge and build on new opportunities for transforming the…