Ed Morrison in DC Today: Education Council at the National Association of Manufacturers

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"At the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Institute explores new approaches to supporting US manufacturers. With the arrival of Emily DeRocco, the Institute expanded its mission by establishing a National Center for the American Workforce and a National Center of Manufacturing Research and Innovation.

I'm in Washington today to participate in a new Education Council to support these efforts. The Council is composed of representatives from secondary and postsecondary schools. We are going to explore for major topics today:

A 21st-century career and technical education agenda: creating educational pathways K-Gray.
Innovation in the manufacturing economy
Education and adult literacy
Manufacturing skill certifications

I'll report what I learn in this blog post."

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Betsey Merkel said
From EDPro Weblog:
Update from Ed Morrison on yesterday's meeting with the Education Council.

New ideas for transforming education by Ed Morrison. Categorized as Public. Tagged with skill shortages.
I spent today at the National Association of Manufacturers, at a meeting of their new Education Council. This group includes leaders from secondary schools, communicty colleges and research universities. We participated in four discussion sessions to learn about:
Redesigning high schools around career pathways
The challenge of moving innovation on to the national policy agenda
The challenge of redesigning adult education and integrating it into workforce development
The design of a new national system for manufacturing workforce skills
One important fact: two thirds of our manufacturing employees will be retiring over the next decade.
There's some important insights from the group which I will distill, as I review my notes. There's no question that a wide range of innovation is already taking place across the country. We lack, however, some coherence about these experiments to connect education to the world of work.
I'll be adding my thoughts to a subsequent post.
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