Thursday, December 18, 2025
Since the Launch Initiative began in 2022, the Launch national partners, Advance CTE, Education Strategy Group, Jobs for the Future (JFF), and New America have supported 15 cross-sector site teams from 14 states made up of state and local K–12,...
Friday, October 10, 2025
Data can be a powerful tool to impact student outcomes; yet across K-12 districts, educators face persistent hurdles in leveraging data to improve students’ postsecondary success.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Employers and job seekers alike are feeling the strain of a skills gap that, in many cases, stems from a lack of visibility rather than a lack of qualified talent.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
With increased federal flexibility comes the opportunity for innovation and change, but also increased responsibility to ensure that we don’t lower expectations for our students or schools. In the past two decades there has been significant work done to ensure...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Over the past decade, states and school districts have been hard at work to better integrate career readiness into the student experience, building pathways that aim to prepare young people for a rapidly changing workforce.
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Faced with a steep demographic cliff and a growing chorus of questions about value, higher education is wrestling with a somewhat unfamiliar question: How can the college admissions process evolve from gatekeeper to gateway?
Monday, July 14, 2025
The right math at the right time can transform a student’s future.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
When implemented effectively, accelerated pathway programs enable students to identify career opportunities, develop essential workforce skills, ease their path to college, save money, and reduce the time it takes to achieve their educational goals.
Monday, April 7, 2025
We are experiencing a great shift in how American society thinks about the value of higher education.
Monday, December 9, 2024
As postsecondary transfer enrollment continues to grow, a more unified approach across systems and states can help mitigate credit loss (and excess credit), so that more adults are able to attain degrees and improve their economic outcomes.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Integrating work-based and academic learning has been shown to positively impact participants’ career trajectories. Youth apprenticeship, in particular, can be a tool to advance economic mobility for historically marginalized populations. These programs provide students—between the ages of 16 and 24—the...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
High school graduation requirements serve as both a signal of readiness and a lever for opening access and opportunity to social and economic mobility.