Building an Integrated System of Educational Excellence

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Building an Integrated System of Educational
Excellence

• Maura Banta

Corporate Community Relations Manager IBM
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Our global regional competitors are advancing
in educational attainment
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Education immigrants the key to the future
workforce
Educational Attainment Immigrant Labor Force
arriving in MA 90 - 00
Source MassInc, US Census, CPS data.
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And despite investment and gains, MCAS
proficiency is stuck in neutral
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Our funding of public higher education is
erratic among the lowest
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The OVERARCHING GOAL An Excellent Pre K- 16
Workforce Development System

Workforce Development
Lifelong Learning
Public Private Colleges, Universities
Adult Literacy English Skills (ABE/ESOL)
K-12
Out-of-School Enrichment
Early Education
Healthy Child Development
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Broad Agreement Among Business Leaders on Core
Goals

• Quality Early Education
• Quality Teaching/Teacher Training
• High Standards (Proficiency), Quality Measures
• Overcoming Disparities in School Quality
  Student Outcomes
• Excellence in Math Science
• Ready Access to Adult Basic Education
• (ESL, ABE)
• Importance of Public Higher Education
• Workforce Development At All Levels

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Excellent Business-Supported Initiatives Underway

• PRE K- 12
• Early Education for All Campaign
• Just for the Kids -Mass Business Alliance on
  Education
• Great Schools Campaign Mass Insight Education
• Rennie Center Research plus
• Teacher 21 Mass Business Roundtable
• NGA Grant to MA

• HIGHER EDUCATION
• Senate Task Force on Public Higher Education -
• Budget Recommendations
• R D Centers of Excellence Technology Road
  Map/Mass Insight
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) -
  School to Career
• Goldberg Seminar collaboration among institutions

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Workforce/Career Development

• SkillWorks
• A New Initiative
• 5-year, 15 million partnership Foundations,
  City of Boston, Commonwealth of MA
• Directly engages employers
• Targets health care and hospitality
• 30-40 million pending
• Economic Stimulus Bill

A fragmented system. But what works? Need
research pilots at all levels
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The First Rung of the Ladder Early Education
 
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January 11, 2006