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Publications and Tools

Our publications and tools are free to download and are designed to help you take action with the E-W Framework. Scroll down for at-a-glance resources that offer a look into what the framework has to offer, tools to help you explore and apply the framework, and the full report if you prefer to see all the details in one place.

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E-W Framework at a Glance

This at-a-glance resource offers a look into the E-W Framework and its use in advancing educational and economic opportunity for all.

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E-W Indicators at a Glance

This at-a-glance resource offers a look into the E-W Framework indicators of outcomes and milestones and related system conditions that matter most to help every student succeed as they progress from early education through their career. It also provides details on how the indicators were selected. 

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Data Equity Principles at a Glance

This at-a-glance resource offers a look into seven principles for centering equity throughout the data life cycle to encourage more ethical and effective data use. 

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Source Frameworks at a Glance

This at-a-glance resource offers a look into the 41 source frameworks that informed the development of the E-W Framework.

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Student Pathways to Success

This supplemental resource explores the multiple pathways that can lead students to economic mobility and security and how education and workforce systems can support their journey.

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Essential Questions Guide

This supplemental resource offers practical guidance and tools to identify fundamental questions about what’s working, what’s not, and how education and workforce systems can improve, along with how to explore the data that matter most to answer those questions.

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Education-to-Workforce Indicator Framework Report

This full report includes detailed guidance for what matters most to measure and how to use data to drive positive change. The report also describes the why, how, and what of the yearlong collaborative process that led to these recommendations.

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Opportunity for All Webinar

In this webinar, three experts discuss how the E-W Framework can help state leaders increase data access, collect and use data that address essential questions about students' pre-K to workforce experiences, and embed data equity principles into data collection and use. Download the slides or watch the recording from the event.

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Explore E-W Framework Essential Questions

This spreadsheet tool allows you to explore the framework’s 20 essential questions by pre-K, K–12, postsecondary, and workforce sector and identify the indicators related to each question.

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Explore E-W Framework Indicators and Metrics

This spreadsheet tool allows you to explore the framework’s 99 indicators and their associated metrics by pre-K, K–12, postsecondary, and workforce sector, indicator domain, and indicator type.

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Explore E-W Framework Characteristics for Disaggregating Data

This spreadsheet tool allows you to explore 25 characteristics the framework recommends for disaggregating data by pre-K, K–12, postsecondary, and workforce sector.

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Explore E-W Framework Evidence-Based Practices

This spreadsheet tool allows you to explore 26 examples of practices shown to move the needle on key outcomes and system conditions by pre-K, K–12, postsecondary, and workforce sector and identify the indicators related to each practice. 

Resource Type: xlsx


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