One state is trying to connect student and workforce data

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The Hechinger Report has spent years reporting on how, where and why Americans go to college, or why they don’t. Soaring costs and demand for skilled labor have fueled enormous interest in and funding to train high schoolers, college students and adults in career and technical education, or CTE.

That’s why we want to know how it is working, and it turns out that answering that question ([link removed]) is not easy, because of a disconnect between student and job data. Our story with The Washington Post explains what one state is trying to do about it.

We are also digging into recent data ([link removed]) that helps us understand early warning systems and student absenteeism post-Covid — an urgent question at a time when the number of students who are chronically absent from schools has almost doubled to 28 percent from around 15 percent ([link removed]) before the pandemic.

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** States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works ([link removed])
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Adult employment outcomes are disconnected from K-12 data sets


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