Research
What the research and the working models show
Verified profiles, policy scans and evidence reviews behind the guides. Each one lists its sources and the date we last checked them.
Working models
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Winchester's Emil and Grace Shihadeh Innovation Center: A Verified Profile
Career-Connected Education Research, Topic 1 of 6.
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SparkNC: A Verified Profile
SparkNC is a North Carolina nonprofit that runs a statewide network of high school labs where students explore high-tech careers through short, self-paced learning units.
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Kauffman Foundation Real World Learning: A Verified Profile
Real World Learning (RWL) aims for every Kansas City-area graduate to earn at least one Market Value Asset by 2030.
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Plug-In Career-Connected Models: A Catalogue for Schools
This catalogue describes six career-connected models you can add to or learn from in a comprehensive high school, arranged from the lightest lift to whole-school redesign.
Evidence
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Career-Connected Education Outcomes Research Review: Part 1, Employment and Earnings
Career-connected programs reliably raise the chance a student is employed after high school, and the best-designed studies find lasting earnings gains for young men in full, field-aligned programs.
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Career-Connected Education Outcomes Research Review: Parts 2 to 4
Career-connected programs reliably raise high school completion by a small amount, shift some students toward two-year colleges, and work best when they are deep, well built and tied to real local demand.
Policy and logistics
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Career-Connected Education: 2026 State Policy Refresh
This refresh brings the July 2026 state policy scan up to October 2026.
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Work-Based Learning Logistics: Transportation, Schedules and Liability for Minors
Three logistics problems stall most work-based learning (WBL): transportation, the master schedule, and insurance and child labor rules.
Michigan deep dives
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Michigan Construction, Energy and Trades Pathways: What High School Can Deliver
A high school program delivers the front end of every construction, energy and trades career and the license at the end of none of them.
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Michigan Health Science Pathways: Barriers and What High School Can Deliver
You can deliver most of the classroom side of a health science pathway inside a Michigan high school.
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Michigan CTE Crosswalk (Product A): Scope Record and First Entry, Health Sciences to Biology
Register item 4.10 is a confirm-and-amend task, not five open decisions: the July 2026 Phase 0-1 Starter Kit already answered the roadmap's scope questions, and eight of the ten answers still hold.