Research/ Report

Jobs for the Future (JFF) under The Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship (PAYA) developed a brief that looks to serve both new and emerging youth apprenticeship programs.

The goal of the survey series is to understand and track the landscape of postsecondary competency based education (CBE) providing stakeholders with a better understanding of the current landscape.

PIPEline to Career Success provides school leaders with a tool to assist in recruiting and retaining more students with disabilities into transition pathways within Career Technical Education (CTE)/ Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers. 

Striving to Thriving is a 16-month research project that used a mixed method approach to explore young people’s experiences of education and work with a specific focus on learners of color.

The Promising Credentials report highlights to all sectors of Hawaii (labor, postsecondary, secondary, workforce) whether the credentials learners are earning provide clear pathways to employment that pay family sustaining wages.

In this report, the National Skills Coalition (NSC) explores the racial and ethnic disparities in educational attainment and access; systemic barriers to equitable workforce training and quality employment; and why advancing equity is an economic and moral imperative.

This report from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) provides an overview of funding for Career Technical Education (CTE) and a detailed look at CTE funding models in Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West Virginia.

This report from the National Skills Coalition (NSC) details the State Wage Interchange System (SWIS), a data sharing tool jointly managed by the Department of Education (ED) and the Department of Labor (DOL) that allows states to exchange anonymized employment and earning data with other states.

This policy brief from Credential Engine explores how full, open and transparent access to information about credentials and their value can be a crucial element of how states can work to dismantle inequitable systems.

This research and report was commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation to better understand the current hiring landscape and provides recent trends.