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| The National Institute for Work and Learning (NIWL) was founded in 1971 by The Conference Board and became an Institute of the Academy for Educational Development in 1988. NIWL (formerly the National Manpower Institute) was formed in the conviction that any new effort to investigate the nation’s human resource problems and suggest remedies should be based on two guiding principles: 1) to be effective, change must be supported by all elements of the community—business, labor, education and government; collaboration among all sectors is essential and 2) to be realistic, change must be implemented at the local level. The founding Chair of the Board was Former Secretary of Labor John Dunlop; the first President was Former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz. One of the Institute’s early projects brought together Chief State School Officers and executives from major corporations to discuss career education. These seminars intensified the Institute’s focus on the interrelationships between education and work. From its beginnings, the Institute recognized the need for a comprehensive education-work policy in the United States. In 1973, the Institute assembled a council comprised of industry, education, organized labor, and the general public to develop a plan for such a policy. The resulting report, The Boundless Resource: A Prospectus for an Education/Work Policy, became a key document for rethinking learning and earning in America. At the same time, it established the agenda for the Institute’s subsequent efforts to find ways of mixing education and work for youth, during the middle years, and later. For more information, please contact:
Ivan Charner, Vice President and Director,
AED-NIWL
Bryna Shore Fraser, Vice President and Associate Director, AED-NIWL AED National Institute for Work and Learning 1825 CONNECTICUT AVE. NW
WASHINGTON,
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