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Read on to explore America Succeeds’ Durable Skills work, efforts to transform the workforce pipeline, policy resources, and the latest news.

2 months ago

America Succeeds and EBSCOed Are Bringing Durable Skills to the Talent Marketplace

Durable skills like communication, collaboration, and critical thinking consistently rank among the most in-demand competencies in the labor market. Yet they remain among the hardest to assess, validate, and translate…

2 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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…

4 months ago

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…

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America Succeeds and EBSCOed Are Bringing Durable Skills to the Talent Marketplace

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

Your State Doesn’t Have a Portrait of a Graduate. Here’s Why This Report Still Matters to You.

Emotional Intelligence: The Skill That Shapes Learners for Life

Building Trusted Skills Infrastructure: Pathsmith™ and Credential Engine

Building Leaders Who Can Weather the Storm

Building a Stronger Durable Skills Framework: How Feedback Is Shaping Our Work

What the OECD Says About AI in Education, and Why It Matters for Durable Skills

Bridging the Gap: How Project-Based Learning Prepares Students for Career Success

From Exploration to Action: What We Learned at Our Community College Durable Skills Convening

How Students Can Prepare for the World Outside Classrooms

Self-Management: Building the Habits Learners Need to Succeed

Solving the Collaboration Problem: Getting Learners to Work Together Effectively

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