On Jan. 29, Dr. Chris King, director and senior research scientist at the Ray Marshall Center and lecturer for the LBJ School of Public Affairs, travelled to Cleveland, OH to participate in the 10th annual Policy Summit on Housing, Human Capital, and Inequality. Dr. King, along with Dr. Carolyn Heinrich, Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs at the LBJ School, provided a presentation entitled “How Effective Are Workforce Development Programs? Implications for U.S. Workforce Policies.” Drs. King and Heinrich disconnect between conventional wisdom on workforce development and their perceived effectiveness versus their actual effectiveness and impact. The policy summit brings together policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and other stakeholders from across the country. According to the Summit’s website, the goal of the annual policy summits is “to discuss the latest research on promising practices in economic policy and development in low- and moderate-income communities.”
6/29/2012 – King Delivers Keynote at Ohio Education Research Center Conference
The Ohio Education Research Center held a conference on June 28 in Colombus, OH for educators, researchers, and others interested in using research-based findings to advance school improvement. Ray Marshall Center director and senior research scientist Dr. Chris King delivered the keynote address and presentation entitled Putting Research into Action for Student, School, and System Success. Dr. King’s presented an overview of the Central Texas Student Futures Project, its impact, successes, and lessons learned.
6/25/2012 – Austin American Statesman: King on Impact of Shrinking Midlevel Jobs in Texas
In the Sunday June 24 edition of the Austin American Statesman, Ray Marshall Center director, Dr. Chris King, comments on the potential for new midlevel jobs to emerge as baby boomers retire. The article “Many midlevel jobs go missing as employment market changes,” by Dan Zehr discusses how entry level positions are being replaced by machines and automation. High demand and high growth sectors such as technology and health care demand skills and education beyond a high school diploma. Zehr notes, “For a large portion of Austin’s population, the jobs that once would’ve afforded a better life for them and their families aren’t coming back. And the new midrange jobs require a different set of skills.”
Click here to read the full story.
6/21/2012 – American Prospect Gives In-depth Coverage of Longterm Job Training and its Impact
Abby Rapoport’s June 20th article, School for Success, in the American Prospect provides an in-depth look into Central Texas’s Capital IDEA, its staff, participants, and the wraparound services it provides to help low income individuals obtain careers in healthcare and technology. Read the full story here.
6/20/2012 – Student Futures Presentation from TASSP Now Available
On June 13, Greg Cumpton, researcher at the Ray Marshall Center, gave a presentation at the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals (TASSP) Summer Workshop. The presentation is now available on the website and available for viewing or download at this link: Student Futures Overview and Impact
6/19/2012 – Austin News Feature Labor Market and Job Training Programs in Texas
The Sunday edition of Austin American Statesman on June 17 featured two stories by Brenda Bell discussing efforts made in Texas to help low-income families achieve skills and economic security. Comments from Dr. Chris King, director of the Ray Marshall Center, were highlighted in both articles.
The first story, appearing on the paper’s front page, “In Texas, working poor families struggle to get ahead,” discusses the difficult realities low income families face in Texas and the efforts made by the state and nonprofit sector to help these individuals. Bell notes, Texas ranks last in the U.S. with the percentage of adults 25 or older in a state with a high school degree. Moreover, the state ranks third in terms of share of its hourly workforce earning minimum wage or less. Federal, state and local government support to improve labor outcomes in Texas has declined, noting that the state legislature’s main job training program fell from $44 million to $1.2 million in just one year. Debates continue to exist in Texas between providing people with short-term training to gain employment versus longer-term training in higher skill jobs for greater economic potential and security. Bell highlights Capital IDEA’s program to help people gain certifications and employment in the healthcare sector. Capital IDEA is a nonprofit that provides remedial education, postsecondary education, skills certifications, and counseling support to help low income adults get ahead. To read the full story, click here.
To view a video overview of Capital IDEA, click here.
Bell’s second piece profiles several participants of Capital IDEA’s program, mostly single women and single moms, the realities and challenges they face, and plans that they are working towards. In this piece, the Ray Marshall Center’s exploratory analysis of Capital IDEA’s return on investment was highlighted. To read the full story, click here.
6/18/2012 – Student Futures Project: Senior Surveys Closed, Next Steps This Summer
The Student Futures Project’s annual survey of graduating Central Texas high school seniors closed as of June 12. Center researchers plan to share survey reponses and preliminary results with each participating high school later in the summer.
Researchers will issue a series of reports over several weeks, with each report focusing on a specific topic of interest in the survey. The first report will address student responses towards planning and preparation for college.
Feedback on these reports from participating partner schools are highly encouraged. Partner schools can provide feedback by visiting the Student Futures website, and clicking on the “Take the Student Futures Usage Survey” link located in the upper left area of the home page. For questions or additional information regarding the Student Futures Project, please contact Greg Cumpton, gcumpton@raymarshallcenter.org or Garry Davis, gdavis@raymarshallcenter.org.
6/15/2012 – Open Society Foundations Highlight Ascend Fellows and Two-Generation Strategies
On June 12, Mimi Corcoran, director of the special fund for poverty alleviation at Open Society Foundations, shared her impressions from a recent visit to Tulsa to learn about CareerAdvance, the two-generation program operated by Community Action Project of Tulsa County (CAPTC) that works to help low-income parents achieve nursing and health information technology associate degrees. To read the blog posting, click here.
6/13/2012 – Center's Research Presented at Symposium of High School Administrators
On June 12, Center researcher Greg Cumpton gave a presentation at the Successful 21st Century High School Symposium addressing strategies for improving postsecondary enrollment in Central Texas. To view or download the presentation, click here.
6/12/2012 – Center Updates CREST Members of Latest Student Futures Project Activities
On June 11, Greg Cumpton met with the Austin Chamber of Commerce’s College Readiness and Enrollment Team (CREST) to update members of the latest progress with the 2012 high school senior surveys, plans for using the data, recent and planned research publications and presentations for the project. The presentation is a available for viewing or download at this link.
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