HESA

Cultivating our talent to preserve America’s prosperity and security is our country’s 21st century moonshot. To respond to emerging global and national challenges and address the workforce gaps that threaten our future, we must find new ways to work together to innovate and unleash the talent of all our people. Together, we must commit to making meaningful progress on the education and talent development outcomes that matter most to the American people. America's Talent Moonshot is a call to action to create a coordinated national response to the complex, strategic education and talent needs of the United States. Advancing these outcomes will require higher education systems and institutions, state and federal governments, public and private funders, and business and industry partners to collaborate in the national interest and invest in research and innovation that: • Responds to calls from national and state councils to address critical talent and skills gaps. • Addresses wicked problems lacking clear ownership that can only be impacted by multi-sector partnerships working together in new ways. •Creates new models and learning designs that result in measurable progress on the outcomes that matter most to the American people. • Generates educational innovations and technologies that can be adopted and tested in state and local contexts and then be scaled nationally to achieve measurable national impact.