Trust, Strategy, and Creativity: Breaking Through Data Barriers in Pathway Design

“In communities nationwide, high schools, colleges, and industry partners are coming together around a shared urgency to put young people on a more direct path to college degrees and careers. They’re working together to identify the career pathways that provide the most economic mobility, ensure that students take college courses leading to those careers while in high school, and develop work-based learning that gives students hands-on experience.

Creating these pathways requires not only a common vision, but cross-sector data systems that inform decision-making and enable partners to understand ongoing needs, successes and areas for growth. A number of states have invested in high-quality, publicly available data dashboards highlighting metrics across the education-to-workforce pipeline. Yet often, regional partners building accelerated pathways are operating in challenging and siloed data landscapes.”

YouthForce NOLA is featured in Accelerate ED’s newest paper, Trust, Strategy, and Creativity: Breaking Through Data Barriers in Pathway Design, which profiles the work of five regions surmounting typical challenges in cross-sector data sharing to drive changes and solutions that increase student success.