Innovations in workforce development: Partnering schools with industries (Diana Quintero, Brookings)

On July 7th, Governance Studies at Brookings hosted a half-day conference on the global context of modern manufacturing. The event included a segment on innovations in workforce development with Ashley A. Smith, a reporter from Inside Higher Ed who moderated the segment panel; Mary Ann Pacelli, Workforce Development Manager with the Manufacturing Extension Partnership; Walter Siegenthaler, Executive VP of the Max Daetwyler Corporation; and Leah Gilliam, Strategy, Innovation, and Education VP of Girls Who Code. The panelists addressed alternative education models, skill gaps in the manufacturing workforce, and the role that corporate partnerships can play in education.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/07/27-innovation-workforce-development-schools-industries-quintero

A. Alfred Taubman Forum on Public Policy examines 25 years of charter schools in America (Diana Quintero, Brookings)

On April 26, the Brown Center on Education Policy hosted the seventh annual A. Alfred Taubman Forum on Public Policy. During the forum, education experts and practitioners from various perspectives explored the role, effectiveness, and future of charter schools in the U.S. education system. They discussed how these schools were created as a way to bring innovation to the classroom and as a new way to create new type of public schools. Have charter schools lived up to this mission and if not, why not?

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/05/02-public-policy-forum-charter-schools-quintero