Year Up “embodies strong forms of what we know makes sense and seems to work,” said David Fein, principal investigator for Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education, a multiyear evaluation of training and education programs. Today, Mr. Davis, 27, is a cybersecurity specialist working on an incident response team at the company. Partnerships with community colleges, begun as an experiment in 2012, have become the driver of growth for Year Up. By combining resources, the program can reduce its cost of $28,000 a student by 30 percent, Mr. Chertavian said. Their programs involve work-based learning at companies to link training with employer needs, and thus hiring.

Source: New York Times May 19, 2019 19:22 UTC