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 additional resources from our partners and organizations doing related work in the field.

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CEDS Connections for E-W Framework Indicators

CEDS Connections offer “recipes” for tracking and reporting recommended indicators: they include data elements and step-by-step guidance for calculating indicators states can use when data are aligned with the CEDS data standard. To view Connections for E-W Framework Indicators, search for “Education-to-Workforce (E-W) Indicator Framework” using the drop-down menu or the search bar in CEDS Connect.

Data collection

What Now? A Vision to Transform State Data Systems

This resource from the Data Quality Campaign describes the types of data access that people need to successfully navigate decisions through education and the workforce, details four use cases in which SLDSs are necessary to support decisionmaking, and describes clear ways that state and federal leaders can take action to make this vision a reality.

Policy and advocacy

Education to Workforce Pathways Diagnostic Toolkit

State longitudinal data systems can enable insights about how students navigate pathways from K–12 education into higher education and the workforce and about where students may need additional support. The Harvard Strategic Data Project’s SDP Education to Workforce Pathways Diagnostic Toolkit offers a resource to help agencies to analyze K–12 data, college enrollment and completion data, and workforce outcomes.

Data collection

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Charting a Course to Quality: A Navigator’s Handbook to a Robust Non-Degree Credential Data Ecosystem

This comprehensive handbook from the National Skills Coalition is designed to guide states in building and enhancing the data ecosystem necessary to evaluate non-degree credential programs. It offers practical steps and examples from states already leading in this area, so others can adapt successful models to their unique contexts.

Data collection

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E-W Framework Indicator Alignment Template for Funders

This workbook is intended for philanthropic funders working in the early education, K-12, postsecondary, and/or workforce sectors. The template offers prompts to reflect on how the Education-to-Workforce (E-W) Framework's 99 indicators align with your organization's work and helps you think about potential next steps for your measurement, learning, and evaluation activities.

Planning

Using Postsecondary Outcomes Data

This best practice guide from QIP can help states promote postsecondary outcomes data to key education stakeholders, including K-12 districts and schools, parents and other caregivers, students, and policymakers, and help them use data to make data-driven decisions.

Evidence-based practices

Issue Brief: Building an Education-to-Workforce Data Framework

This issue brief from Governing discusses how state and local leaders can use the E-W Framework to adopt a more comprehensive, seamless, data-driven approach to supporting students on their journeys from pre-K to the workforce.

Policy and advocacy

Indicator Readiness Brief

This supplemental resource is designed to help framework users identify which indicators and metrics are likely to be ready for adoption and which need further development.

Data collection

Opportunity for All Webinar: Aligning Data Systems to Address Disparities from Pre-K Through the Workforce

In this webinar recording, three experts discuss how the E-W Framework can help state leaders increase data access, collect and use data to answer essential questions about students' experiences, and embed data equity principles into data collection and use.

Data equity

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.

Planning