Section 2 · White Papers

Foundational Federal White Papers

Two white papers from the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board defined the federal vision for Learning and Employment Records: verifiable, portable, learner-controlled, and interoperable. The LER.me platform delivers each of these qualities in production today.

Federal documents in this section

2.1 American Workforce Policy Advisory Board — White Paper on Interoperable Learning Records (September 2019)

First federal-level white paper to formally identify Learning and Employment Records as a novel but technically feasible technology for connecting verified credentials and experience among workers, employers, and education providers. Recommended creation of an LER Inventory and limited-scope pilots.

2.2 American Workforce Policy Advisory Board — Learning and Employment Records: Progress and the Path Forward (September 2020)

Authored by AWPAB's Digital Infrastructure Working Group with the U.S. Department of Commerce. The principal federal reference document on LERs. Defines core qualities (verifiable, portable, learner-controlled, interoperable), describes the LER ecosystem, presents pilot results from IBM, Walmart, and Salesforce, and makes recommendations for federal and state action. Frequently cited in subsequent agency guidance and proposed legislation.

Source: Department of Commerce: full white paper (2020) · T3 Network Hub overview and links to both papers

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From the AWPAB white papers to a working LER ecosystem

The American Workforce Policy Advisory Board's 2019 and 2020 white papers — the foundational federal documents on Learning and Employment Records — defined the four core qualities every LER must have: verifiable, portable, learner-controlled, and interoperable. They also called for an LER Inventory and limited-scope pilots. The LER.me platform delivers each of these qualities in production today, with the citizen, not the system or the institution, holding lifelong ownership of the record.

Action steps

State Governors and statewide longitudinal data system (SLDS) leads. Implement the AWPAB-defined LER stack via LER.me, with the credential registry providing the OBv3-aligned credential layer and citizen-owned LERs at the record layer.
Education and training providers (K-12, CTE, postsecondary, adult education). Contribute credentials, learning records, and outcomes into the LER Inventory through LER.me's freemium and paid issuance tiers.
Workforce intermediaries and Workforce Boards. Deploy LER.me Recommendations so workers receive personalized learning, work-based learning, and career recommendations grounded in their LER and connected find-your-fit assessments.
Federal advisors, researchers, and standards bodies. Cite LER.me's production deployment as the LER pilot the AWPAB white papers called for, and use it as the reference implementation for interoperability testing.

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