The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.
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Displaying What We Do: Education
Economic Opportunities Program
America’s 21st century competitiveness depends on a workforce that can contribute up-to-date skills, which is why Skills for America’s Future believes worker training and development is one of the...
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Economic Opportunities Program
In an increasingly competitive global economy, America’s economic strength depends on the education and skills of its workers. Skills for America’s Future, an employer-led initiative of the Aspen...
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Blog Post | February 5, 2013 | Jeff Harris
Yesterday PBS NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan did a story on Acheivement First, a charter school network serving low-income and minority students in the Northeast that the Aspen Institute Education and...
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Event | February 19, 2013 - February 20, 2013 |
Queenstown, MD
Education and Society Program
Issues relating to research in education and the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA).
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Blog Post | February 4, 2013 | Christian Arana
With massive open online courses—or MOOCs—and other forms of technology-driven instruction taking center stage, national and state-level conversations about higher education seem to be paying less...
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Business and Society Program
The Aspen Corporate Values Strategy Group (CVSG) is focused on ensuring that corporate and investment practice better supports the long-term health of society. Short-term pressures in today...
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Blog Post | February 4, 2013 | Jeff Harris
February may be the shortest month of the year, but it's turning out to be one of the busiest at the Aspen Institute. Here is a taste of what we have coming up and some great opportunties to engage...
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Economic Opportunities Program
Our current work focuses on: Scale and Sustainability Although Aspen/EOP's initial research in this area centered on ways the community development finance field could achieve scale and...
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Economic Opportunities Program
Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) staff work closely with the leaders of community-based organizations, community colleges and local government as well as with employers, financial institutions...
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The Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) advances workforce training, community college, microenterprise and asset building strategies for lower income Americans.
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