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Career Pathways Take the Next Step toward Quality and Scale
Feb 14, 2013
By Vickie Choitz, Marcie W.M. Foster, and Patrick Reimherr
Over the last decade, career pathways have evolved as an innovative approach to assist individuals in gaining marketable credentials and good jobs and to help employers access a skilled workforce. Postsecondary credentials (including both marketable noncredit, industry-based credentials such as Certified Manufacturing Technologist or Wind Turbine Technician and more traditional two- and four-year degrees) can be an avenue out of poverty and a lifetime of low-wage work. However, the nation's education and workforce development systems have not been designed to provide all workers with a seamless path to earning these credentials.
Despite all good intentions, the current state of our education and workforce systems too often results in shortcomings that can block the road to educational and economic success for low-income workers. For instance, the education and training pathway is disjointed: adult education and college developmental education are often disconnected from workforce education services. These disconnects can make it more difficult for students to progress from one level of education to the next or to transfer from one educational system to another. Also, in many cases, today's education and workforce development systems lack structures to help students navigate the disconnects, obtain critical support services, and gain the "college knowledge" necessary for success in postsecondary education. Finally, students facing economic pressure to work and support their families may not see the relevance of traditionally delivered education and discontinue before making headway toward earning credentials and securing better jobs.
A career pathway approach reorients existing education and workforce services from a myriad of disconnected programs to a coordinated structure that focuses on the individuals in need of education and training and corresponding career paths. This approach also provides clear transitions, strong supports, and other elements critical to the success of participants. It is not simply a new model; it is a new way of doing business – for education and training institutions, employers, students, community organizations, agency staff, and policymakers. Adopting a career pathway approach means redesigning the delivery of education, training, and employment services to be much more integrated, aligned, and participant-centered.
Last summer, CLASP launched the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways, a two-year, state-driven, CLASP-led effort to identify (1) criteria for high-quality career pathway systems and (2) a set of shared performance metrics for measuring and managing their success. The 10 states in the Alliance are leading the nation in experience with and scale of career pathway efforts. These states are Arkansas, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. The Alliance recognizes that there are many different types of career pathways for different types of students and workers, and a comprehensive career pathway system provides an inclusive umbrella for all of them. The Alliance's niche in this broad vision is to develop a framework for career pathways focusing on educationally underprepared youth and adults.
In the first phase of the Alliance, CLASP released two products this week:
- The Alliance for Quality Career Pathways Approach: Developing Criteria and Metrics for Quality Career Pathways - A Working Paper
- A Framework for Measuring Career Pathway Innovation - A Working Paper


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Cabbage and Blue Cheese Salad with Sunflower Seeds
(Makes 3-4 side dish servings, recipe created by Kalyn. All measurements can be adjusted to taste.)
4 heaping cups thinly sliced cabbage (I used packaged pre-sliced coleslaw mix which includes a bit of carrot, but this would be even better with freshly sliced green and red cabbage mixed)
1/2 tsp. celery seed (or more)
1/2 cup blue cheese salad dressing (I used Litehouse Original Blue Cheese)
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
Blast from the Past Recipes with Sunflower Seeds:
Tuna Fish and Tomato Salad with Sunflower Seeds
Carrot, Parsley, and Garbanzo Salad with Cumin
Better-for-you-than-Mom's Bacon and Cabbage Salad
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(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly, check ingredients.)
Broccoli and Toasted Seed Salad from Cook Sister
Ginger Sunflower Seed Salad Dressing from Christine Cooks Vegetarian
Creamy Asian Slaw from Everybody Loves Sandwiches
Cowboy Coleslaw from A Veggie Venture
Award Winning Broccoli Salad from Mrs. Gluten Free
Broccoli Slaw from La Mia Cusina
Balkan Roasted Vegetable Salad from Eat Me, Delicious
Simple Substantial Salads from Green Gourmet Giraffe
Swiss Chard Salad from I Am Gluten Free
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Rumored Snippet of Azealia Banks, Lady Gaga, Beyonce + Rihanna 'Ratchet' Collabo Leaks
This decade's answer to 'Lady Marmalade' may be on the way sooner than we thought. Azealia Banks, Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Rihanna were rumored to be teaming up for a track called 'Ratchet' for quite a while, and now a snippet of the song may have leaked.
The 24-second snippet opens with sirens and is an electro-dance number with a heavy hip-hop beat. A deep voice bellows, "Ratchet!" just before the clip crescendos and fades. The track is said to be produced by frequent Gaga collaborator DJ White Shadow. There's a dubstep feel to it that likely makes dance divas Gaga and Rihanna feel right at home.
The song has been rumored to be in the works for a while now, but has only recently and rapidly been gaining momentum. We the Urban uncovered the track and have a handy timeline of each artist's hints and confirmations about appearing on the song.
Gaga previously confirmed that a 'Telephone 2.0′-style collabo with Bey would appear on 'ARTPOP,' and Banks has said that she and Mother Monster worked together on two tracks that were for Gaga to use however she wanted. One of those tracks was confirmed to be 'Ratchet,' but no official word as to Beyonce nor Rihanna's involvement has been issued. However, both ladies have dropped visual and Twitter hints about working with Gaga and about 'Ratchet' — Bey posted a pic wearing earrings with the word inside and Rih has been dropping Gaga's name on the site.
It may be tough for any song to live up to the expectations that come when you put four of the most famous women on the planet to record together, but we don't doubt for a second that these ladies can pull it off. Brace yourselves, K—s, Rihanna Navy members, Bey Hivers and Little Monsters — 'Ratchet' is on the way!
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Three-year-olds are relatively powerless creatures who have recently realized it. As such, they get upset about many, many things. I know this because I have two of them. The three-year-olds in my house have lost it ("losing it" is defined as screaming, crying, yelling, throwing toys, or some combination thereof) over the following (note: this is a very incomplete list):
See if you non-parents can follow this logic: the kid in the video wants what he wants because he wants it. If required to handle a similar situation, given the above likelihood of a fit being thrown, most rational* parents would take the least destructive course. They'd say "fine, whatever, enjoy the Ankees," knowing that tomorrow the kid will have forgotten all about it. Three-year-olds have the memories of goldfish. This is, of course, wrong. It is also not wrong.
* I'm coming to learn that rational parental behavior is inversely proportional to the cumulative age of their children.
I don't know the father in the video but I'm guessing if the discussion were over which is a car or a truck, or the color of the kid's fork, he would have taken the goldfish tack. But this is different. Unlike word definitions, fork color, or the potential health risks of covering one's self in dog feces, this is about baseball teams and baseball teams are important.
The video ends with the father telling his three-year-old kid that if he's going to root for the "Ankees" he'll have to find another place to live. It's a funny line and probably explains the video's popularity, but some of you, most likely those of you without children, may be thinking the dad's reaction was overly mean. In fact, you may be thinking one or more of the following things:
As I stated before, I have two three-year-old boys, and the answer is, to paraphrase Chris Rock, I can't endorse that sentiment, but I understand it.
It's not hard to have sympathy for the kid. I mean, he's three so that's enough right there. But it goes beyond that. Like most three-year-olds, and I don't have any qualms about saying this even though I'm fairly certain three-year-olds make up a large portion of those who enjoy my writing, he doesn't have a damn clue what he's talking about.
So when you get down to it, the kid in the video might spend the night on the porch, but $20 says he's wearing a Red Sox hat on his next birthday. If it takes a bit of parental steamrolling to get him there then maybe, considering the context, that isn't the worst thing in the world.
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"Who do we love?"
"The Red Sox!"
"That's right!"
These things are drilled into the heads of children by their parents, much the same way religion, political parties, and every other intensely personal preference is. I'm as guilty of this kind of thing as the next parent. As parents we teach our children how to relate to the world and we do that guided by our values. But our values are a prism through which the world (and Major League Baseball) is refracted. What we think is right and wrong and all the things we care about inform this, such as the list in the first sentence of this paragraph. That includes our baseball teams.
For some, showing your children your love of a specific team is a more personal thing than others. A friend of mine has three kids. He grew up a Red Sox fan in Boston, but he lives in Philadelphia now so that won't be his son's experience. His son is entering the age where fandom starts to kick in so we've had this discussion mostly because, potential horror of potential horrors, his son has decided that he likes the Phillies. The Phillies aren't a direct competitor to the Red Sox, so this isn't nearly as bad as the kid in the video who chose the Yankees. Still, there's a part of you that wants to hand that love of team to the next generation, to have that be a bond, not a wedge.
Passing a religion or value or baseball team down to your son is in effect offering a part of yourself to them. It's something intensely personal that you can give to them. It's a part of you that will become a part of them, a part of who they are. If all goes well, one day they'll hand it to one of their kids.
My kids are too young to get any of that now. Right now they run around in their little Red Sox hats not because they love the Red Sox but because that's the hat that Daddy wears. For now that's more than good enough. But if one of them eventually decides he loves the Yankees over the Red Sox, it might be funny on YouTube, but one of us would probably have to find a different place to live.
Matthew Kory is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @mattymatty2000
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Matthew - as a father of four boys including twin sons who has his kids cheering for the Texas Rangers like I did as a boy (I live in North Carolina), the MLB extra innings was the key to the deal. Of course, not having a local team was probably the most important factor. But it is great having all of cheering for the same team, and they got the benefit of skipping those first 35 or so crappy years. :-)
Jun 25, 2012 07:15 AM
I'm a Cubs fan now but my dad and brother are Cardinals fans. I remember being a Cardinals fan until about 5 years old when I switched to the Cubs. I can't really remember why but I think it had something to do with their success in 1989 and our proximity to their AAA team. In retrospect I wish my dad had taken the stance of the dad in the vid. It would've saved me a lot of pain and suffering.
Jun 25, 2012 11:14 AM
My brother was always oppositional.
Jun 25, 2012 14:04 PM
Enjoyed the article Matthew. I'm a Yankee fan who married a big Sox fan from Boston. A mixed marriage if you will. To keep the peace we've decided to raise our kids Mets fans.
Jun 25, 2012 17:33 PM
umm...has anyone considered the possibility that the clip was staged?
Jun 25, 2012 18:34 PM
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Staging something with a three year old is... well, I don't want to say impossible, but impossible.
Jun 25, 2012 19:14 PM
Out of the question. The tears of Yankees fans are far too rare and valuable to risk being caught counterfeiting them.
Jun 25, 2012 19:36 PM
I don't know, call me the minority, but passing on the love of the game is enough. With all of the things kids can hate their parents over and for, baseball and fandom included, I don't give a damn what teams my kids come to love and/or root for, just that they recognize how great sports are and the role they play. This is all just the perpetuation of some narrative that we'd like our lives to be, root for the Yankees kid, or the Red Sox, or the Phillies, I don't care. I just hope you love baseball.
Jun 25, 2012 20:57 PM
My daughter is only ten weeks old and her mother and I are already arguing about which team she should be a fan of. The missus is from Chicago (northern 'burbs) and wants the little one to be a Cubs fan. As her father, I do not condone her heart breaking, so I want her to be a Blue Jays fan like me. That way we can enjoy the game, but remain cautiously apathetic towards the results.
Jun 26, 2012 11:57 AM
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A puppy whose leg had been sawed off by an abuser has been fitted with a prosthetic limb and his vet says he's doing fine.
The Times Union of Albany reports (http://bit.ly/SgkspS ) that the 3-month-old pit bull mix named Hudson got the device on Monday. It features a waterproof rubber sole with treads for grip.
Hudson was one of three siblings found abused and abandoned on railroad tracks in Albany in September. The others had holes punctured in the paws and one was so badly injured and malnourished it had to be euthanized.
Now Hudson and his sister Pearl, named for Albany streets near where they were found, are about to get a new home thanks to the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society.