Resources

Implementing Guided Pathways: Tips and Tools

  • Guide/Tool
March 2015 —

This tool from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) outlines the implementation process, costs and benefits of redesigning academic programs and student support services following the guided pathways approach.

Stackable Credentials: Awards for the Future?

  • Research/ Report
April 2017 —

This research study from the Community College Research Center estimates the number of stackable credentials earned in the U.S., classifying stackable credentials into three types: Progression, Supplemental and Independent. 

Innovation Pathways: Summary, Preliminary, and Final Designation Criteria

  • Guide/Tool
July 2017 —

This guidance document from Massachusetts summarizes the Commonwealth's High Quality College and Career Pathways (HQCCP) Innovation Pathways criteria and design principles.

Guided Pathways: The Scale of Adoption in Michigan

  • Case Study
January 2018 —

This report from the Michigan Center for Student Success examines how 23 Michigan colleges made progress over three years in implementing the guided pathways approach to support college completion and career success.

Counting U.S. Secondary and Postsecondary Credentials

  • Research/ Report
April 2018 —

This report from Credential Engine provides a preliminary confirmed count of U.S. credentials available in 2018 and finds that a total of 334,114 credentials exist in the marketplace today. 

Career Advisement and Development Webinar

  • Webinar
February 2018 —

This webinar from Advance CTE and the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) describes the findings and conclusions in The State of Career Technical Education: Career Advising and Development report.

Making the Most of Workforce Data: State Collaboration with External Entities for Actionable Research

  • Case Study
April 2016 —

This report from the Workforce Data Quality Campaign draws on examples from Kentucky, Minnesota and New York to demonstrate how states can leverage longitudinal data to support research and policymaking.

Education Trends: High School Diploma Options that Meet Federal Graduation Rate Calculation Requirements

  • Research/ Report
February 2018 —

This report from the Education Commission of the States outlines three common approaches states take to providing alternative pathways to graduation outside of a regular high school diploma that meet federal requirements.

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