Cradle-to-Career Education
Unlocking children’s potential through early care and education from birth until working in a career, including ensuring smooth transitions to and through kindergarten, middle school, and high school graduation with a pathway to college and/or career
Video | Cradle-to-Career Pathways Supporting Social and Economic Mobility
This replay of a livestream panel from the Harvard Graduate School of Education highlights the future of cradle-to-career, place-based partnerships. This work intentionally broadens the boundaries of education beyond schooling to include the broader ecosystem of children's lived experience and the supports and opportunities each family needs to restore social mobility in this country. Speakers discuss the potential of the cradle-to-career movement to eliminate intergenerational poverty and strengthen our democracy.
This case study highlights the work of Purpose Built network member Orlando Lift, including why this network is critical to supporting a pipeline of high-quality, community-serving schools for the families of the Communities of West Lakes.
Toolkit | Community Schools Playbook
This guide provides tools for advancing community schools as a strategy to improve schools, provide more equitable opportunities, and prepare students for success in life and as citizens.
Toolkit | The A-Zs of Creating a Voter-Approved Children’s Fund
Children's Funding Project checklist for creating a voter-approved children's fund in your community.
Toolkit | Raise the Bar: Unlocking Career Success
This is a federal interagency initiative that reimagines how our nation’s high schools prepare all students to thrive in their future careers. Click the "Take Action" tab to access tactical playbooks for multiple sectors and stakeholders.
Framework | Pathways to Prosperity
Jobs for the Future's Pathways to Prosperity framework reimagines how the U.S. educational and workforce systems could work together to meet state and regional talent needs and prepare young people for careers.
Framework | Blueprint for Maryland's Future
The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future legislation, passed in 2021, includes comprehensive changes to Maryland’s public education system to enrich student experiences, accelerate improvements to student outcomes, and improve the quality of education in Maryland.
Interactive Tool | Maryland Child Care Mapping
This map provides "real time," hyperlocalized data about Maryland early childhood education providers to identify gaps in child care access and capacity.
This toolkit was designed to support early care and education providers as they implement the Maryland Family Engagement Framework’s goals and strategies. Learn best practices and practical tips, techniques, and strategies about how to move from family involvement to family engagement.
Interactive Tool | Evidence for Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA)
This site was created by the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University with the goal of providing clear and authoritative information on Pre-K to Grade 12 programs that meet the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) evidence standards and enable educators and communities to select effective educational tools to improve student success.
Interactive Tool | Institute for Education Sciences: What Works Clearinghouse
This searchable database includes evidence-based recommendations, intervention summaries, and study reviews across various educational practices and interventions.
Interactive Tool | Youth Evidence Innovation
This systematic review of teen pregnancy prevention literature developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services identifies and rates programs based on their evidence of effectiveness in reducing teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and associated sexual risk behaviors.
Report | Crossing the Canyon: Ethnographic Findings About Life After High School
This ethnographic report by the Reinvention Lab at Teach for America uplifts the voices of youth ages 15-24 and their adult supporters on the challenges beyond K-12. It provides new insights and frameworks for supporting students as they navigate post-secondary transitions.
Toolkit | Early Childhood and Learning Toolkit
This toolkit provides seven strategies and actionable practices designed to offer school districts a blueprint for success in providing early childhood education. Designed by the Early Learning Cohort of ASSA, The School Superintendents Association.
This webinar replay featuring perspectives from state officials and education leaders from Massachusetts and Texas, discussing strategies to operationalize data for educational attainment goals.
Case Study | Past and Future Teachers Ensure Student Success in Rural Appalachia
This post highlighting Partners for Rural Impact (PRI) is part of the “Community Schools Leader Insights” series in which Brookings shares the experiences of people making strides toward student success through the unique strengths of local community. It offers insights into PRI's successful braiding and blending of funds for rural initiatives.