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Career Pathways in a Rapidly Changing World

Postsecondary Success

July 27th, 2023

Part 1: A Trip Down Under and a Conversation with Andreas On April 7 of this year I took off on an amazing adventure. As this blog explains, for the last three months, I have been on loan with the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) in France. I worked with a wonderful team there in Paris, and while there, I took...

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What Can the Rest of the World Teach Us about Career Pathways?

Postsecondary Success

April 3rd, 2023

Back in 2014, I went to Switzerland and met a young man with a big smile and a ponytail named Luke Rhine. He was a new employee at the Delaware DOE and who knew at the time that that trip would be so catalytic in helping the state build out a new effort that we collectively called, “career pathways.” Today, we are at a new pivot point...

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Career Pathways and the Future of American Education

Postsecondary Success

March 2nd, 2023

In the last couple weeks, Opportunity America, in concert with the Walton Family Foundation, released a compendium of essays entitled, “Unlocking America’s Future.” See here for the 12 essays and a video of the release. This is a provocative mix of perspectives from the right and the left. I wrote one of them, here, entitled, “Career...

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Building Self-Identity and Mapping the Future: How Delaware is Beginning to Rethink Middle School

Postsecondary Success

July 14th, 2022

National leaders like Advance CTE are helping lay the groundwork for middle grades redesign. Having been cited and celebrated as a national leader in career pathways, Delaware has built a robust career and technical education (CTE) system that is integral to high school in Delaware. Despite the state’s success, it has become...

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