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America Achieves, New America, and more than 30 other workforce-related organizations today released a joint letter calling on Congressional leaders to include workforce development in upcoming economic recovery and infrastructure legislation.

February 14, 2020   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Colorado educators, working with nonprofits America Achieves and mindSpark Learning and industry leaders, have developed and piloted a suite of Career-Ready Performance Tasks—industry-aligned, project-based learning experiences and corresponding resources to help students explore in-demand careers and develop and demonstrate learning of essential, in-demand skills.  Across the country, […]

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NATIONAL—America Achieves is pleased to announce the release of Quest for Success, an innovative career exploration course designed to help ensure students know about and are prepared for careers of the future. Any educator, school, or school system in the world can now access this high-quality curriculum completely free-of-charge […]

We heard a lot last month about global competitiveness, and learned that the United States is not faring as well as one would hope on the Program for International Student Assessment. Though it may be tempting to just focus on the PISA rankings, it is important to look beyond rankings and learn from our global […]

Some Natick High School 15-year-old students will be participating in a test next year that administrators hope will help the school see how it compares nationally and internationally. Natick High School last school year participated in a pilot version of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development test. This school year, it is among more […]