1. K-12
  2. K-12

K-12

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.

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. 

New Skills for Youth Phase One Snapshot: Nevada

  • Case Study
  • Snapshots
January 2017 —

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

The State of Career Technical Education: Employer Engagement in CTE

  • Research/ Report
December 2014 —

This report from Advance CTE examines the employer engagement landscape with a particular focus on the ways in which states can foster and sustain meaningful employer engagement to strengthen their CTE system for all students through policy and practice.

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 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.

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.

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