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Graduation and Completion Requirements

Resources on topics such as competency-based education, multiple pathways, diplomas and endorsements and postsecondary admissions requirements

Credit for Prior Learning Messaging Toolkit

  • Guide/Tool
April 2023 —

This toolkit provides effective messages targeted to key audiences and strategies for dissemination to increase participation in Credit for Prior Learning among adult learners who are pursuing career pathways and CTE programs of study that lead to jobs in in-demand fields.

Targeting the Technical: Prioritizing Analysis of Student Transcripts in Degree Reclamation Efforts to Improve Student Completion Outcomes

  • Research/ Report
January 2022 —

Finding ways for institutions to accelerate the completion of credentials that are valued by the labor market can motivate students to reengage and help them succeed.

State of the Field: Findings From the 2020 National Survey of Postsecondary Competency-Based Education

  • Research/ Report
July 2021 —

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.

Ready for What? How Multiple Graduation Pathways Do—and Do Not—Signal Readiness for College and Careers

  • Research/ Report
February 2021 —

This Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) report provides state policymakers and advocates with an analysis of the various graduation pathways currently in effect. It also offers recommendations to help lawmakers and others focus graduation pathway policies on equity and excellence.

All Learning Counts: State Policy Toolkit

  • Guide/Tool
December 2020 —

This toolkit features multiple examples of exemplary postsecondary credit transfer and learning recognition policy and is intended to be used by state leaders to examine their current environment for consistent ways to recognize, reward and transfer learning.

Designing Equitable Promise Programs

  • Guide/Tool
March 2020 —

This resource spotlights equity concerns for statewide college Promise programs and provides considerations for state policymakers as they design and implement Promise programs that advance equity. Specifically, the guide addresses affordability, access, and success for special populations

Career and Technical Education Coursetaking in 2013 by Locale

  • Research/ Report
September 2019 —

This report examines the Career Technical Education coursetaking of high school graduates from different locales — city, suburb, town and rural — using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009.

Connecting AP Seminar and CTE Programs of Study

  • Guide/Tool
February 2019 —

This guide from the College Board describes AP Seminar’s course contents and provides state, district, and student examples of how AP Seminar could be potentially embedded into a CTE program of study.