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• The Undereducated America
  
• A Cross-Case Analysis of Career Pathways
  
• A New National Approach to Career Navigation for Working Learners
  
• Adult Learning in Focus: A State-by-State Analysis
• Aligning Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Experiences from Career and Technical Education
  
• Beyond Basic Skills: State Strategies to Connect Low-Skilled Students to an Employer-Valued
• Postsecondary Education
  
• Bridge Programs in Illinois: Summaries, Outcomes, and Cross-Site Findings
  
• Bridging the Gap: Meeting the Challenge of Universal Access Through Community Partnerships
  
• Building a Higher Skilled Workforce: Results and Implications From the Bridgeconnect National Survey
• Building a Comprehensive Youth Employment Delivery System: Examples of Effective Practice (February 2010)
  
• Building Career Ladders for the Working Poor Thorough Literacy Training
• Building Pathways to Postsecondary Success for Low Income Young Men of Color: A Community Intervention Strategy (November 2010)
• Connecting Curriculum, Assessment, and Treatment in Developmental Education
  
• Courses to Employment Update (Number 2) The Price of Persistence: How Nonprofit Community College Partnerships Manage and Blend Diverse Funding Streams
  
• Construction Skills Queensland - Integrated LLN and Learning Support Project. Core Calculating and Communication Resources (Aus)
• Creating Postsecondary Pathways to Good Jobs for Young High School Dropouts (October 2008)
  
• Crossing The Bridge: GED Credentials and Post-Secondary Educational Outcomes
  
• Embedding learning from formal training into sustained behavioural change in the workplace - 2011 (Aus). Note: Register to download (free)
• Enhanced Transitional Jobs Demonstration
  
• Farther Faster: Six Promising Programs Show How Career Pathway Bridges Help Basic Skills Students Earn Credentials That  Matter (August 2011)
  
• Funding Career Pathways and Career Pathway Bridges: A Federal Policy Toolkit for States (October 2010)
• Integrating Industry-Driven Competencies in Education and Training Through Employer Engagement
• Learning from the Youth Opportunity Experience: Building Delivery Capacity in Distressed Communities(February 2006)
  
• Leaving No Worker Behind: Community Colleges Retrain the Michigan Workforce - and Themselves - 2011 (US)
  
• Noncredit Enrollment in Workforce Education
  
• Not all College Degrees are Created Equal
• Online Learning: Does it Help Low-Income and Underprepared Students? (Community College Research Center, March 2011)
  
• Partnering with Employers to Promote Job Advancement for Low-Skill Individuals
  
• Passing the Torch: Strategies for Innovation in Community College ESL
• Program Memorandum: Use of Funds Provided Under the Adult Education and  Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) for Integrated Education and Training (Department of Education, June 2010)
• Promoting college and Career Readiness: Bridge Programs for Low-Skill Adults
  
• Reach Higher, America: Overcoming Crisis in the US Workforce
  
• ROI From Investing in Workforce Development
  
• Sound Investments: Building Immigrants' Skills to Fuel Economic Growth
  
• Shifting Gears: State Innovation to Advance Workers and the Economy in the Midwest (July 2010)
• TANF Education and Training Resources
  
• Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
  
• Update Issue 4: Sector Initiatives and Community Colleges: Working Together to Provide Education for Low-Wage Working Adults

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Exploring Career Pathways Worksheets
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Jamestown Community College: Choosing a Career Worksheet
Matrix Resources Career Chart
University of California Career Assessment Worksheet
Career Cruising Worksheets

Developing Career Pathways for Adult Education Students: Lesson Learned
June 23, 2011