This post reviews the CCR Success Center and related content and regional centers then connects Common Core alignment to postsecondary education through Lumina Foundation work by David Conley and Achieve research tying CCSS to CTE and Perkins funding.
This post walks through major workforce and education programs from Manpower and CETA to School to Work Goals 2000 and WIOA and highlights the Workforce Data Quality Initiative that matches workforce data with education data for pre K through employment tracking.
This Tech Thursday breaks down a radio interview with Arne Duncan in Massachusetts covering community colleges as workforce trainers Common Core standards testing teacher evaluations and federal grant driven programs.
A follow up to the NC Workforce Learning Summit detailing how business and public private partnerships influence education direction with community colleges and CCSS aligned workforce tests like WorkKeys.
This post connects Common Core to career pathways and workforce policy citing quotes from a National Dialogue on Career Pathways then details NCICTE federal CTE initiatives and how public private partnerships continue to drive education reform.
This post breaks down NASDCTEc CTE branding and the Career Clusters framework and lists major partners pushing career readiness and Common Core aligned workforce pathways.
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.