Resources

The State of Career Technical Education: Improving Data Quality and Effectiveness

  • Research/ Report
April 2019 —

This report draws on a national survey of State CTE Directors to examine how states are collecting and using career readiness data. 

Endorsements, Electives & More: CTE & State Graduation Requirements

  • Research/ Report
April 2015 —

This Advance CTE brief explores common approaches to offering or requiring CTE courses and assessments within a statewide set of graduation requirements, offers illustrative examples of state-level policies and elevates implementation issues for consideration.

The Every Student Succeeds Act: Intersections and Opportunities for CTE

  • Guide/Tool
February 2016 —

This resource from Advance CTE explores the major intersections between ESSA and Perkins and describes opportunities to align the two. Specifically, the guide examines standards alginment, accountability and integrating supports for educators, among others. 

CTE on the Frontier: Leveraging Federal Policy to Strengthen Rural CTE

  • Guide/Tool
November 2017 —

This cheat sheet is designed to help rural policymakers identify leverage points across federal education and workforce programs to support and expand access to high-quality rural CTE at both the secondary and postsecondary levels.

Putting Labor Market Information in the Right Hands: A Guide

  • Guide/Tool
November 2017 —

This guide from Advance CTE is designed to help states think through the process of disseminating labor market information. The guide highlights how Nevada, Kentucky and Washington disseminated data to various audiences and provides questions for states to consider for each.

Building a Strong Relationship Between Competency-Based Pathways and Career Technical Education

  • Case Study
  • Guide/Tool
August 2015 —

This report by Achieve and Advance CTE lays out the leverage points between Career Technical Education (CTE) and Competency-Based Pathways (CBP) and provides guiding questions to help state and local leaders consider how CTE is, can and should be a part of their CBP strategies.

Career Readiness & the Every Student Succeeds Act: Mapping Career Readiness in State ESSA Plans

  • Research/ Report
December 2017 —

This report from Advance CTE and Education Strategy Group examines Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) state plans in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to see how states are taking advantage of key opportunities to support career readiness.

New Skills for Youth Phase One Snapshot: Delaware

  • Case Study
  • Snapshots
January 2017 —

This snapshot profile describes Delaware's work during Phase One of the New Skills for Youth initiative. 

The Learning that Works Resource Center was developed through the New Skills for Youth initiative, a partnership of the Council of Chief State School Officers, Advance CTE and the Education Strategy Group, generously funded by JPMorgan Chase & Co