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Postsecondary education

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.

CTE is Your STEM Strategy

  • Case Study
  • Guide/Tool
December 2013 —

This paper from Advance CTE explores the connection and overlap between CTE and STEM education. States can use this resource to help identify connections, to learn from other state strategies, and to develop their own strategies to connect STEM and CTE in their policy, practice and rhetoric.

CTE on the Frontier: Connecting Rural Learners with the World of Work

  • Case Study
September 2017 —

This brief from Advance CTE, the second in the CTE on the Frontier series, explores how states can bring the experience of work-based learning and employer engagement directly to rural learners through simulated workplace experiences, innovative satellite campuses and mobile labs.

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.

Credentials of Value: State Strategies for Identifying and Endorsing Industry-Recognized Credentials

  • Case Study
October 2016 —

This policy brief from Advance CTE explores state strategies to build a credential validation system, highlighting promising practices from Florida, Kansas and Louisiana.

Defining High-quality CTE: Quality CTE Program of Study Framework, Version 4.0 (Beta)

  • Guide/Tool
March 2017 —

This resource from ACTE provides a blueprint for designing and implementing high-quality programs of study. The framework can be used to evaluate and improve local programs of study.

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.

CTE on the Frontier: Catalyzing Local Efforts to Improve Program Quality

  • Case Study
August 2017 —

This brief from Advance CTE's CTE on the Frontier series describes how states like Nebraska, South Dakota, Idaho and Mississippi are working to improve the quality of local career pathways to meet industry needs and expand opportunities for rural learners.

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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