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K-12

Connecting the Classroom to Careers: A Comprehensive Guide to the State's Role in Work-based Learning

  • Guide/Tool
October 2016 —

Advance CTE's comprehensive work-based learning guide provides key considerations and guiding questions to walk states through the steps of building and scaling a high-quality work-based learning system, drawing on high-quality programs and innovative strategies from across the U.S.

The State of Career Technical Education: Career Advising and Development

  • Case Study
  • Research/ Report
February 2018 —

This report from Advance CTE and the American School Counselor Association summarizes a national survey of State CTE Directors, State School Counseling Directors and school counselors to describe effective and promising strategies for career advising and development. 

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: Rural CTE Strategy Guide

  • Guide/Tool
April 2018 —

This guide offers a series of questions for state leaders to use as they reflect on current efforts to expand access to high-quality Career Technical Education (CTE) and career-focused pathways and experiences in rural communities and to identify future opportunities and actions.

Raising the Bar: State Strategies for Developing and Approving High-quality Career Pathways

  • Case Study
April 2017 —

This report from Advance CTE examines successes in Tennessee, New Jersey and Delaware to demonstrate how states can use the career pathways approval process to raise the level of quality across the board. The report examines common approaches and unpacks key policy levers available to states.

The Value and Promise of Career Technical Education: Results from a National Survey of Parents and Students

  • Research/ Report
April 2017 —

This report from Advance CTE draws on national survey data to explore the attitudes of parents and students currently involved in CTE, as well as prospective  CTE parents and students, to better understand the promise and opportunity of CTE.

The State of Career Technical Education: An Analysis of State CTE Standards

  • Research/ Report
October 2013 —

This report from Advance CTE provides a national view on how states adopt, organize and implement CTE standards at both the secondary and postsecondary levels, comparing all state standards to a common benchmark, the Common Career Technical Core.

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.

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