This resource includes a report and a brief which outline three promising strategies for implementing rural pathways: build on local strengths and context, prioritize economic development, and embed remote opportunities.

This framework outlines key considerations and promising strategies for pathways leaders who seek to achieve outcomes for youth while strengthening rural communities.

This brief is supplemental to a previous evaluation conducted by Urban Institute and provides an analysis of two factors: the outcomes of student parents and the outcomes of students in different geographic regions.

This guide provides business, education, workforce, and other professionals with a better understanding of the National Occupational Frameworks (NOFs), which are documents describing an occupation and the benchmarks for on-the-job training and related instruction that apprentices should complete in a registered apprenticeship program. It also details how NOFs are created, and how to use them to develop and register high-quality apprenticeship programs.

This report describes results from a survey of career and technical education (CTE) program administrators with insights about strategies that can support students in getting jobs that offer pathways to economic stability and long-term upward mobility.

This toolkit introduces the PA Career Ready Skills (PA CRS) and Continuum and provides resources for Local Education Agency (LEA) and teacher implementation.

The purpose of this toolkit is to guide State and local leaders to build, implement, and sustain career pathways systems and programs. The 2016 revision includes new knowledge gained from the field, plus the system’s guiding legislation from the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.

The goal of this clearinghouse is to inform the public workforce investment system about the value, development, and uses of competency models. A competency model is a collection of competencies that together define successful performance in a particular work setting, from Personal Effectiveness Competencies, such as ‘initiative,’ to Occupation-Specific Requirements, such as ‘Process patient admission or discharge documents.’ Competency models are a tool for Career Pathways stakeholders to communicate clearly about the competencies required for specific jobs, job groups, organizations, occupations, or industries, and a framework to develop educational offerings.