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Let’s Focus on Scaling Career and Future Readiness Programming for All Students
When it Comes to Expanding Career-Connected Learning, Research and Thought Leadership are the Key
Ryan Fitzpatrick: Prepare Like Crazy
All Options on the Table: Parent Views on Postsecondary Education and Career Paths
Building a Stronger Grantee Community
Reimagining Philanthropy: High School Students as Transformative Grant Decision-Makers
Reed Hastings: Use AI for Real-World Learning
Preparing Every Middle Schooler for the Future, State by State
A Perfect Launch: How ‘Launchpad Jobs’ Determine Career Success
Next Steps: An Analysis of Teens’ Post-High School Plans
Kathleen deLaski: Expand Your Toolkit
Life After High School: A Summary of Community Listening
Curiosity to Concern: GenAI and Teen Career Dreams
New Report Highlights Promise and Progress in High School Work-Based Learning in 10 States
Tony Hawk: The Lessons in Our Failures
Exploring Lucrative and Dynamic Careers in Health Sciences
Launchpad Jobs: Empowering Our Youth to Make Good Career Choices
Launchpad Jobs: Developing a Plan B
Launchpad Jobs: Next Steps Towards Success
Creating Successful Work-Based Learning Experiences that Teach Durable, Social Emotional Skills
Lessons Learned: Preparing Middle and High Schoolers for Their Futures Through Work-Based Learning
Launchpad Jobs: Why First Jobs Matter
Launchpad Jobs: Achieving Career and Economic Success Without a Degree
How Are Young People Learning About Nondegree Pathway Programs?
Nondegree Pathway Programs Meet Students Where They Are
Are Nondegree Pathway Programs Preparing Participants for Career Success?
Reimagining Work-Based Learning to Equip Youth with Durable Social-Emotional Skills
Metrics Matter: Recommendations for Improving Long-Term Student Success
Metrics Matter: How Higher Education is Leveraging Data to Influence Postsecondary and Workforce Success
Extending the Runway for Middle School Career Exploration
Metrics Matter: How K-12 Is Leveraging Data to Influence Postsecondary and Workforce Success
What Middle School Students Have to Say About Career Exploration
Unpacking States’ Efforts to Prioritize and Facilitate Middle School Career Exploration
Preparing Young People for Their Futures: A Nationwide Analysis of the Effectiveness of Middle School Career Exploration Programs
Intermediaries: The Behind-the-Scenes Magic Makers of Tech Work-based Learning
Inspired by Doing: Entrepreneurial Education Helps Kids Find the “Why” in School
Youth Work-Based Learning: Trends, Benefits, and Opportunities for Students and Employers
Believing in the Potential of a Career Readiness Utopia
Measurement for Mobility: How U.S. States Can Use Data to Incentivize Postsecondary and Workforce Success in Public Education
Success, Redefined: Navigating a New Postsecondary Landscape
Free to Dream: How I was Inspired by the Words of Award-Winning Artist Common
Extending the Runway To Better Prepare All Students for Their Futures
At The Crossroads Of ‘I Can’, ‘I Should’, And ‘I Want’