Resources

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.

Work-based Learning Policy: 50-State Scan

  • Case Study
April 2017 —

This 50-state scan from the National Skills Coalition examines policies in all 50 states plus Washington, D.C., highlighting thirty-five states that have formal, paid work-based learning policies in place. 

College and Career Readiness Begins With a Well-Rounded Education: Opportunities Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

  • Guide/Tool
April 2017 —

This policy brief from the College and Career Readiness and Success (CCRS) Center describes how states can develop and implement their own definitions of a well-rounded education focused on improving college and career readiness aligned with workforce demand and economic development efforts.

Policy, Pilots and the Path to Competency-Based Education: A National Landscape

  • Guide/Tool
April 2017 —

This report from ExcelinEd and EducationCounsel examines state competency-based education policies and makes recommendations to help other states launch pilot programs of their own.

Tennessee Work-based Learning Policy Guide

  • Guide/Tool
May 2017 —

This policy guide was developed by the Tennessee Department of Education to help schools and local districts understand and implement the state's new work-based learning framework

21st Century Educators: Developing and Supporting Great Career and Technical Education Teachers

  • Guide/Tool
February 2014 —

This brief from the Center for Great Teachers & Leaders addresses policy gaps in developing and supporting CTE teachers by offering an overview of the current policy landscape, its implications for CTE teacher effectiveness, and next steps for creating aligned human capital policies.

Guided Pathways: Scale of Adoption Assessment and Planning Tool

  • Guide/Tool
June 2017 —

This tool from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) evaluates how far along postsecondary institutions are towards implementing the essential guided pathways practices at scale.

Evidence-Based Practices to Support College and Career Readiness in High School: Early-College High School

  • Case Study
  • Research/ Report
July 2017 —

This brief from the College and Career Readiness and Success Center at AIR provides an overview of research related to early-college high schools to help states meet the evidence requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). 

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