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Credentials play a key role in workforce development. For employers, credentials can assist in identifying qualified workers, upskilling their current workforce, and competing in the marketplace. For job seekers, obtaining credentials can improve...

This session is the third webinar in this series for the youth community, hosted by the Chicago and San Francisco Employment and Training Administration (ETA) offices but open to all, to inspire strategic planning and action now in anticipation of...

The Department of Labor issued Training and Employment Notice (TEN) 04-26, Promoting High-Quality Industry-Recognized Credentials in August 2026. TEN 04-26 explains how to identify and find high-quality industry-recognized credentials, suggests...

Profiles four promising best practices from California Community Based Organizations that link disconnected youth to education and work opportunities, and illustrates how these organizations can be a model for similar work elsewhere.

The Credential Finder is a web-based application that allows users to search, find, and compare credential information. 

This report examines the structural divide between for-credit and noncredit postsecondary education and the problems it presents for people seeking better jobs with higher pay.

This Committee for Economic Development (CED) report, Improving Noncollege Pathways to Skills and Successful Careers, explores alternative pathways and offers policymakers and business leaders specific tools to help these students successfully...

Education Commission of the States' Promising Practices report discusses state approaches that systematically broaden dual enrollment access and provide pre-collegiate experiences to middle- and lower-achieving students.

Stackable credentials focus career and technical education programs on building the critical skills needed for students to advance in growing sectors of the economy. The Stackable Credentials toolkit, developed by the Mapping Upward project,...

This new report report from Community College Research Center tracks the progress of the 30 colleges in implementing guided pathways reforms over the first year of the project, gives detailed examples of how the colleges are approaching this work,...