The National Occupational Frameworks are developed through the Urban Institute’s Registered Apprenticeship Occupations and Standards Center of Excellence, funded by the DOL. The Urban Institute’s vision for the center is to build a gold-standard occupational skills infrastructure that increases the transparency, portability, quality, usability, and scalability of the US apprenticeship system. Through this project, Urban will deliver more than 80 new apprenticeship standards, create a comprehensive and modernized online compendium of standards, institutionalize best practices, and promote methodologies to ensure a sustainable, high-quality registered apprenticeship system.

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Project Credits

RESEARCH Amy Young, Layli Whyte-Oliver, Wendy Brors, and Lauri Mullins, American Institutes of Research; and Zach Boren, Urban Institute

DESIGN John Wehmann

EDITING Liza Hagerman

PRODUCTION Patrick Walsh and Jerry Ta

WRITING Laura Swanson