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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.

Early Achievements and Innovations from Phase One of the New Skills for Youth Initiative

  • Case Study
  • Snapshots
February 2017 —

This publication from Advance CTE sumamrizes work completed in Phase One of the New Skills for Youth initiative. The document profiles significant achievements and lessons learned, drawing out strategies that other states can replicate.

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.

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.

Assessing the Education and Employment Outcomes of Career and Technical Education Students

  • Guide/Tool
July 2014 —

This white paper from RTI International and Advance CTE lays out specific recommendations for how the U.S. Department of Education and future legislation from Congress can provide additional guidance to help Perkins grantees generate more valid, reliable and comparable state data.

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.

In Their Words: Why Business Leaders Support CTE, Career Pathways and Career Academies

  • Case Study
November 2016 —

This brief, from Advance CTE and Ford Next Generation Learning, is the outcome of two roundtables held with business leaders in Nashville and Pinellas County to explore why and how they support CTE in their communities, and offers recommendations based on their successful engagement.

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