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Strengthening Career Pathways Through the Power of State and Local Partnerships

  • Case Study
June 2021 —

This resource from Advance CTE is the third in a series of policy briefs centered on strengthening career pathways. It offers promising practices for leveraging the strengths of state and local leaders to cultivate sustainable, scalable partnerships and advance high-quality career pathways.

New Skills ready network 2020-2021 Snapshot: Denver, Colorado

  • Snapshots
June 2021 —

This snapshot provides a summary of the priorities for Denver, Colorado's New Skills ready network team, focusing on building a shared data framework to better measure the impact of career pathways and mappting career pathways to ease learner transitions.

New Skills ready network Year One Annual Report: Early Achievements and Innovations

  • Research/ Report
June 2021 —

This annual report provides an overview of the early achievements and innovation from the first year of the New Skills ready network initiative.

Connecting Every Learner: A Framework for States to Increase Access to and Success in Work-Based Learning

  • Research/ Report
March 2021 —

This Advance CTE report provides a 5-step framework to address equity gaps in work-based learning by building a statewide infrastructure that enables cross-agency collaboration and prioritizes relationship building, data and accountability, quality, and extending social and cultural capital.

IM STEM: Using Collective Impact to Broaden Participation in STEM and CTE through a Multi-State Systems Approach

  • Research/ Report
January 2021 —

NAPE's report shares challenges and promising practices of the IM STEM initiative, which uses a collective impact model to create systems changes in state-level agencies and organizations with the goal of providing diverse students access and opportunities for success in STEM and CTE.

The Equitable Outcomes Imperative: Strategies for Advancing Racial Equity in Postsecondary Attainment

  • Research/ Report
December 2020 —

This brief from Education Strategy Group provides examples of how states can make equity a core driver in their postsecondary credential attainment goals.

Improving Youth Apprenticeship Data Quality: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Research/ Report
November 2020 —

The report, developed by the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship's (PAYA) Data Quality workgroup, addresses the most urgent youth apprenticeship data quality challenges and describes the roles that different stakeholders can play in improving the quality and use of data.

CareerWise: Case Study of a Youth Apprenticeship Intermediary

  • Case Study
June 2020 —

This resource from the Urban Institute is a case study of CareerWise Colorado, an intermediary that supports businesses, students, and educators seeking to start youth apprentice programs.