Research, frameworks, and explainers on the skills gap, career readiness, and why the tools we gave students were never built for the world they're walking into.
Students can't prove what they've built. Real skills, no language for them.
Learn more →Shows exactly where the gap is. Free, 4 minutes.
Take it free →Closes the gap activity by activity, in real time. Student-owned.
Learn more →Aggregate, anonymous data connecting what students build to accountability frameworks.
For schools →An entire generation is gaining real, durable skills every day and has no language to prove it. Not because they're lazy. Because the tools we gave them were never designed to capture what they're actually building.
Read more → ExplainerA skills record is not a resume. It's not a transcript. It's something new, a living system that captures durable skills from real experience and follows a student through every stage of their career.
Read more → For SchoolsMost states now score schools on career readiness outcomes. Most schools have no infrastructure to measure them. Here's what the requirement means and what skills intelligence infrastructure changes.
Read more → For SchoolsPerkins V requires CTE programs to demonstrate student outcomes. Here's what the four accountability indicators are, why the framework fragmentation problem makes it hard, and what skills intelligence changes.
Read more → For Schools, CaliforniaCalifornia's College/Career Indicator evaluates graduates across seven pathways. Only 52% are designated Prepared. Here's what California's accountability structure requires and where the skills documentation gap lives.
Read more → Activity TranslationGaming, sports, volunteering, jobs, creative work, teens build real durable skills through everything they do. Here's what each activity actually develops and how to name it.
Read more → ExplainerDurable skills are the human capabilities that hold their value as technology reshapes work. Collaboration, critical thinking, communication, adaptability. Here's what they are and why they're what employers actually look for.
Read more → Research84% of hiring managers say high school graduates aren't ready for the workforce. Entry-level jobs are disappearing. Here's what the research shows about the gap, why it widened, and what it means for today's teenagers.
Read more → Activity TranslationWork-based learning builds real durable skills, collaboration, problem-solving, accountability, professional communication. It's also the activity most directly tied to CTE accountability and the one with the least infrastructure to document what students develop.
Read more → ExplainerThe entire LER infrastructure being built today targets adults entering the workforce. Nobody is building it for high school students. Here's why that's the gap that matters most.
Read more →Abigail Kidd writes about the IDK Problem, the skills gap, and building Volly in real time. Long-form thinking on the workforce readiness crisis and what it means for the next generation.
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