A Cross-State Collaboration on Increasing Access to Industry Experts in High School (Working Group Report)
Discover strategies to ensure learners have access to knolwedgeable industry experts in the classroom.
Issue/Policy Brief
How ESSA and IDEA Can Support College and Career Readiness for Students with Disabilities
Learn how to promote college and career readiness for students with disabilities.
Evidence-Based Practices Supporting College and Career Readiness in High School: Early Warning Indicators
Explore early warning indicators as an evidenced-based practice to support high school college and career readiness.
Evidence-Based Practices Supporting College and Career Readiness in High School: Early College High School
Explore Early College High Schools as an evidenced-based practice to support high school college and career readiness.
Competency-Based Education: Staying Shallow or Going Deep?
In order to be successful in the 21st century, students will need to master an expanded set of competencies that extends beyond discrete academic standards. Competency-based education (CBE) is an educational approach that focuses on mastery of these competencies – rather than seat time – as a measure of student learning. This approach is being adopted by a growing number of educators focused on ensuring students graduate college and career ready.
College and Career Readiness Begins With a Well-Rounded Education: Opportunities Under the Every Student Succeeds Act
Discover how to embed college and career readiness within a well-rounded education under ESSA.
Stackable Credential Policy: 50-State Scan
Stackable credentials are industry-recognized credentials attained through certificate or other non-degree programs that articulate toward a higher level certificate or associates degree in the same job-related area. This policy scan, conducted by the National Skills Coalition, highlights nineteen states with stackable credential policies in place.
Harnessing the Potential of Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems to Support College and Career Readiness
Learn how to use statewide longitudinal systems to promote college and career readiness.
Aligning K–12 and Postsecondary Career Pathways with Workforce Needs
This brief from the Education Commission of the States examines the policymaking activity of 13 states concerning two core areas: (1) how these states are establishing processes for educators and employers to use workforce data to set goals that align with high school and postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) programs; and (2) how these states are developing strategies that scale up career pathways in a way that connects K–12 education to postsecondary CTE initiatives.
Fostering School Success with Standards for Nonacademic Skills
Growing evidence highlights the importance of teaching social and emotional skills alongside academic skills for students’ success throughout their education and beyond. Although social and emotional skills are frequently tied to early education standards, they are often left out of the standards for elementary, middle, and high school. As a result, many states have encountered roadblocks in aligning early learning standards with those for K–12.
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