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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaegx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points nThere's a great Arnerican jobs reshuffle undrerway that, while wrenchirY, has a potentl upDside for education. rO upside is an opportunity to expand two promising and reated approaches to edu- catuorn, training; and hiing: skis-based hiang and K--12 career pathways prograrns. * hese new approaches create workers skilled through alternative routes (STARs) A new opportu nity agena that looks to ST ARs and pI grounded in opportunity plu ralism increases trhe avenues individuals can pursue throughout their life by ofiering them mul- tile eo iucaion, training, and credertiaing parnways to work and a career, When COVID to sent shock waves through the US ji, 1:nart, it ampliied what AE Fs Brent Orrell and Daniel Cox call the great American jobs reshuf- fle,' This naionwide rethinking of work and human. capital development is occurring while Mo,4 nil- lion' jos go in Piled and more than t4.4 EnilliOn unemployed. i.ndi iduals look for work, suggesting a significant nismatch between demand and sup- ply. This reassessment of work and human capital is a norn of creative destruction4-the process through which new approaches replace existing, obsolete ones. What emrerges is a sc ial capital development narrative,s an account that chroni- cles h.ow individuals acquire knowledge and net- works-or social capital-that help them succeed and flourish. While wrenching in many ways, the reassess- ment has an upside. It's an opportunity to expand two promnising and related approaches to educa- tion, training, and. hiring that prepare young peolie and adults for jobs and careers in this new world of work: skills -based hi ring and a K-- 2 approach called career pathways programs, a way to prepare young people for a skills-based labor market. Young people and other workers who undertake patdways programs and are hired for specifie skills or comperencies are w hat Opportunity@W'ork founder and CEO Byron August calls STARs---- workers skilled trough alternative routeso The Labor Reassessment Exacerbated by COVIDi S Even before the pandemic, the job market was changing for nany reasons: job losses due to artifi-- cial intelligence and other forms of automation,7 the rieed to educate and train new workers and

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