Education is of limited value if students are not prepared for the demands of the future and if employers don’t have access to the skilled workers they need. More states are recognizing that the needs of the business community and the educational goals for students need to be connected, which is part of why more states have integrated the Partnership for 21st Century Learning into their educational framework and are requiring some form of the ACT Workkeys, which helps measure career-readiness, as an assessment in schools.
