Browse Our Community Library

Across the country, educators are considering multiple strategies to help students learn and reach graduation. One strategy is competency-based education, which allows students to advance as they demonstrate a mastery of skills or content...

National Apprenticeship Week is a nationwide celebration that gives businesses, communities, and educators the opportunity to showcase their apprenticeship programs and apprentices while providing valuable information to career seekers.

This week, we highlight two resources that describe innovative programs that develop the skills opportunity youth and adults need for today’s jobs through alternative pathways.

How can American Job Center service providers support and foster a culture of self-employment assistance (SEA) and entrepreneurship for their clients? The resources curated in the Workforce Systems Strategy Community and described below provide...

The demand for skilled workers in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields is growing.  The following resources describe a diverse set of efforts and pathways to support education and training in STEM. 

Reviews recent trends in employment outcomes for disadvantaged youth, focusing specifically on those who have become “disconnected” from school and the labor market, and why these trends have occurred.

Although the average return to obtaining a college degree is clearly positive, it is not universally so depending on institution attended, field of study, whether a student graduates, and post-graduation occupation.

The new Common Core standards — an initiative that seeks to bring diverse state curricula into alignment with each other by following standards-based education reform — cannot drive real, widespread improvement unless they are coupled with a push...

Four National Academy Foundations (NAF) academies have integrated elements of traditional and non-traditional internships to offer students a rewarding, culminating work-based learning experience—one that meets NAF Certification requirements and...

Positive results are found in long-term educational, workforce participation, and family formation effects in this examination of career academies for adolescents transitioning to adulthood.