Joseph asks how DOE will measure success of work-based learning as proficiency demonstration
Joseph asks how DOE measures success of work-based learning. Dowling cites outcomes including increased college enrollment, $85 million in wages and tuition savings over five years, and employer feedback on the value students add in workplaces.
And like Chair Denwiss would say, how do we measure success?
What's the plan to measure success in all of that that you've said?
So because we have been working with our work-based learning students and their experiences, we have seen some very strong outcomes around the impact of work-based learning.
It is impacting students going to secondary schools.
It's increased the number of college, students are teaching college now courses.
And really importantly, our kids have earned $85 million over the past five years, both in tuition savings and also in direct wages.
We believe that those are actually pretty strong impacts.
And then the work and the growth that employers are telling us, both in the public sector and the private sector, about how these students, through either apprenticeships or the internships that they're doing, have really, really added value to the work that's happening in their
places of work.