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A New Tool for State Leaders: The Enabling Conditions Diagnostic

One of the central arguments of our Beyond the Portrait 50-state policy scan is that what matters most is not necessarily how many individual enabling conditions a state has in…

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The Path Forward: They could have made it easier. They didn’t.

Here’s a story. Olivia is a student at Gibson Ek High School outside Seattle. She has anxiety and perfectionism so severe that conversations feel like a script she memorized but…

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The Path Forward: They look nothing alike. They generate similar results.

Picture five schools. The first is in St. Paul. Ninety-two percent of its students live at or below the poverty line. Forty percent are currently or recently homeless. Sixty percent…

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When States Expect Applied Learning but Don’t Fund the Infrastructure to Deliver It

The Beyond the Portrait policy scan examined 22 enabling conditions across six categories to understand how states are building the infrastructure for academic, durable, and technical skills development. One of…

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What We Didn’t Include in the Scan (and Why It Still Matters)

In early March, America Succeeds published Beyond the Portrait, a 50-state policy scan examining the enabling conditions that allow Portrait of a Graduate visions to translate into practice. The scan…

2 months ago

When AI Writes the Code, Durable Skills Are What Gets You Hired

By Sherri Widen The Skills That AI Can’t Write for You A recent article in Built In posed a provocative question to tech employers: now that AI can generate code…

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A New Tool for State Leaders: The Enabling Conditions Diagnostic

The Path Forward: They could have made it easier. They didn’t.

The Path Forward: They look nothing alike. They generate similar results.

When States Expect Applied Learning but Don’t Fund the Infrastructure to Deliver It

What We Didn’t Include in the Scan (and Why It Still Matters)

When AI Writes the Code, Durable Skills Are What Gets You Hired

Dale Chu | Adele

Eric Lerum | Bruce Springsteen – The Boss

Jason Gaulden | Digable Planets

Lauren Cole | Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals

Colorado Succeeds | Michael Franti

Tim Taylor | NEEDTOBREATHE

Andy Rotherham | Bruce Springsteen

Myles Mendoza | Grateful Dead

Ashley Gibson | Beyoncé

Jason Gaulden | Skylar Grey

Andy Rotherham | Sturgill Simpson

Business View: U.S. Graduation Rate Rises to Historic High | By Tim Taylor

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