Complex sentence: Beginning in the 1980's, government, educators, and major employers issued a series of reports identifying key skills and implementation strategies to steer students and workers towards meeting the demands of the changing workplace and society.
Split into simpler sentences: Beginning in the 1980's, government, educators, and major corporations became aware of this phenomenon and began examining it. A result has been a series of reports and studies that have identified key skills and implementation strategies to steer students and workers towards meeting the demands of the changing workplace and society.