This post reviews Education Week coverage of CAPS and Dr Tom Trigg and shows how career pathways career clusters and business partnerships promote college and career readiness while still aligning to Common Core.
This post breaks down a 1 hour HEA reauthorization video panel with New America and University of Pennsylvania connections then lists key concerns about outcomes based federal control incentives pipelines WIOA and HR5 style policy moves.
This post connects Common Core workforce alignment to Higher Education Act reauthorization highlighting business workforce partnerships career pathways and policy groups like CLASP plus concerns about federal accountability and expanded postsecondary data collection through IPEDS and NCES.
Have you heard of Educause before? Did you know it has deep roots into Common Core? Would it surprise you
This Tech Thursday post names the CCSSO as the folly of shame winner and highlights the ILN CCCR framework how it drives state to local system redesigns assumptions about all students and policy moves that tie diplomas credentials higher education and workforce outcomes together.
This Tech Thursday Update expands the earlier Aligned and Employed report showing how chambers of commerce promote Common Core tied college and career readiness and workforce alignment using Leaders and Laggards and related resources
This post highlights National Career Pathways Network updates including federal agency commitment letters tied to WIOA plus examples of national groups pushing community college workforce initiatives like AACC Plus 50.
This Tech Thursday post defines alternative education using a US Department of Education research report then shows how career tech education ties alternative education to Common Core alignment assessments like WorkKeys credentials and workforce pipeline placement.
This Tech Thursday explains how Perkins Act funding supports CTE in secondary and postsecondary schools, the strings attached to federal money, and how performance based funding and P3 models can tighten the Common Core squeeze.