Missouri Education Watchdog: Data Quality Campaign Ties Education Data into Workforce Data

Missouri Education Watchdog: Data Quality Campaign Ties Education Data into Workforce Data:

Data Quality Campaign Ties Education Data into Workforce Data

From Data Quality Campaign and DQC Gets a New Baby Sister: Workforce Data Quality Campaign:

Category:

• P–20/Workforce Pipeline

The Data Quality Campaign has joined with the Association for Career and Technical Education, CLASP, National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education Consortium, National Association of State Workforce Agencies, National Skills Coalition, and New America Foundation to advocate for inclusive, aligned, and relevant education and workforce data. This group of national partners believes that in order to achieve economic growth and shared prosperity, we need data-driven education and training policies that prepare all Americans for a skilled workforce that helps US industries compete in a changing 21st century economy. To that end, we created the Workforce Data Quality Campaign (WDQC) in order to ensure that workforce data systems

• include all students and pathways;
• count industry-recognized credentials as well as degrees;
• assess employment outcomes for all participants;
• expand use of labor market information;
• ensure appropriate data access and use.

And now we have a leader to help us accomplish these goals. Rachel Zinn will join the national partners of the WDQC as the organization’s first director this month. Ms. Zinn is an experienced