business backgrounder | employment & workplace
By 2019,
national studies, which have garnered the attention of groups ranging
from the U.S. Department of Education to the Bill & Melinda Gates
two-thirds of all new jobs
Foundation as the U.S. struggles to find ways to get unskilled adults
in Washington state will
into the workforce.
“When people look around to different adult education programs,
they’ve come to the same conclusion that I-BEST is the one that really
of college education.
works,” said Cooper.
Students in I-BEST programs are three times more likely to earn
college credit and nine times more likely to receive a college degree or certificate over
Big Bend Community College:
their peers, according to SBCTC. They are employed at double the hours that non-Iwww.bigbend.edu
BEST students are and earn $2,310 more per year than non-I-BEST students, according
to the SBCTC.
ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston:
The I-BEST model itself is moving beyond the realm of workforce training programs.
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The I-BEST model has been implemented for other areas of adult education, including
I-BEST:
college entrance, earning a GED diploma, and I-BEST designed certificate and diplomas
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for English as a second language students.
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“Seeing results and impact of this program is very exciting,” said Kerr. “This is why
Washington state is leading the nation in adult education.”
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