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Work-Based Learning

Resources on topics such as experiential learning, internships, school-based enterprises and apprenticeships

Improving Skills Through America’s Workforce Development System

  • Research/ Report
September 2018 —

This report from the American Enterprise Institute explores how the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) can be better utilized to respond to the skills gap and outlines seven recommendations to improve WIOA implementation. 

Opportunities for Connecting Secondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) Students and Apprenticeship Programs

  • Case Study
  • Research/ Report
June 2017 —

This report by Advance CTE profiles eight secondary apprenticeship programs and identifies strategies to connect CTE students with apprenticeship programs.

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.

New Skills for Youth 2018 Snapshot: Nevada

  • Case Study
  • Snapshots
March 2019 —

This snapshot profiles Nevada's work in the New Skills for Youth initiative during the 2018 calendar year. 

Registered Apprenticeship Data FAQs

  • Guide/Tool
April 2016 —

This fact sheet from the Workforce Data Quality Campaign (WDQC) provides information about the national Registered Apprenticeships program and the Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Data System (RAPIDS).

Connecting the Classroom to Careers: Removing Legal Barriers around Work-based Learning

  • Case Study
  • Guide/Tool
April 2016 —

This Advance CTE resource features state approaches to dismantling work-based learning’s legal barriers, including training teachers to understand legal, health and safety requirements and mitigating liability concerns for schools and employers, and offers guiding questions to state leaders.

Connecting the Classroom to Careers: Leveraging Intermediaries to Expand Work-based Learning

  • Case Study
  • Guide/Tool
July 2016 —

This document, part of Advance CTE's "Connecting the Classroom to Careers" series, provides guidance and examples of how states can support intermediaries to expand work-based learning.

Connecting Secondary Career and Technical Education and Registered Apprenticeship: A Profile of Six State Systems

  • Case Study
July 2016 —

This report from the National Center for Innovation in CTE (NCiCTE) profiles six states that are working to align secondary CTE and Registered Apprenticeship programs.

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