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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,...

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.

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.

Regional education-to-career intermediary organizations are playing an increasingly critical role in the national education landscape. Through their leadership, K-12, higher education, youth serving organizations, and employers have joined forces to design career-connected learning opportunities that equitably accelerate students’ path to...

Public education is a major investment for states; how do they know that the investments they make in their K-12 and higher education systems are paying off and driving economic mobility for their citizens?

Relationships matter. Growing a student’s network can expand their access to information, tap them into systems of influence, strengthen their own identity and sense of self, and provide them with informal signals and credentials they can add to their formal...

Our education system is facing significant challenges—declining engagement, questions of value, inequality of opportunity, etc. Youth apprenticeship has emerged as a powerful tool to address these concerns; by providing real-world, hands-on experience for students in high-demand career fields, apprenticeship gives...

The economy is evolving more rapidly than ever before, with new occupations taking shape at an unprecedented pace. Students need better and earlier career navigation to increase their likelihood of successfully transitioning into the high-value postsecondary options increasingly required for...

No student can successfully navigate the journey from high school to college to career on their own.

  When it comes to careers, who you know can be just as important as what you know. 

How can districts better leverage data to help their students access and succeed in higher education? Since releasing the framework that introduced the “Momentum Metrics” — eight of the most predictive indicators of students’ postsecondary preparation, retention, and success —...

Education and training beyond high school are critical for long-term career success; however, as our economy has shifted, the range of postsecondary options available to students has expanded and diversified.