Postsecondary education

  • Research/ Report
  • Guide/Tool
May 2021

This playbook from the Clayton Christensen Institute is intended to help K–12 and postsecondary leaders implement and adapt strategies, tools, and metrics that build and strengthen students’ networks.

  • Research/ Report
April 2021

This report by the Education Trust examines state outcomes-based funding policies and the extent to which states prioritized the enrollment and success of students of color and students from low-income backgrounds.

  • Research/ Report
April 2021

This brief from Columbia University's Community College Research Center discusses Guided Pathways as a comprehensive reform to the delivery of community college programs and learner supports.

  • Guide/Tool
March 2021

This practice guide developed by the What Works Clearinghouse describes postsecondary CTE interventions and provides recommendations for supporting occupational skills training through career pathways.

  • Case Study
  • Research/ Report
March 2021

This policy brief from Credential Engine explores how full, open and transparent access to information about credentials and their value can be a crucial element of how states can work to dismantle inequitable systems.

  • Research/ Report
March 2021

This Advance CTE report provides a 5-step framework to address equity gaps in work-based learning by building a statewide infrastructure that enables cross-agency collaboration and prioritizes relationship building, data and accountability, quality, and extending social and cultural capital.

  • Research/ Report
March 2021

This Urban Institute report presents data illustrating gaps in outcomes between learners of color and their White peers in online CTE postsecondary programs, identifies key challenges to improving outcomes for learners of color, and provides a framework for achieving those outcomes.

  • Research/ Report
February 2021

This resource from Capella University defines the key components of prior learning assessments (PLA) and provide strategies to make the implementation and sustainability of the PLA process successful.