What’s Next? Exploring the Portability of Learning through Youth Apprenticeship into Postsecondary and Beyond
The Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship Blog Series
Blog Post
Nov. 20, 2018
The Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship (PAYA) released guiding principles for high-quality youth apprenticeship programs. You can read more about each principle and their related outcomes in the full document here. Over the coming weeks as part of its first blog series, members of the partnership will be exploring these principles in-depth and why each is important to both the expansion and quality of youth apprenticeship across the country.
Check out the first post from Ryan Reyna, Director at the Education Strategy Group, about the portability principle, which ensures learning through youth apprenticeship leads to postsecondary credentials and transferable college credit that expand options for students.
"To take full advantage of this model, states and communities must build youth apprenticeship programs that accelerate students’ progress beyond high school. That’s why “portable” is one of the five principles for high-quality youth apprenticeship. Portable means that the learning that takes place in high-quality youth apprenticeship programs leads to transferable college credit and, ultimately, postsecondary credentials that expand options for students..."
Click here to read the entire post.