July 11, 2019
Good career exploration today is working to develop things in young people...that help them have agency in making decisions about careers.
What Does ‘Career Readiness’ Look Like in Middle School?
Having long focused on readying students for college, school systems are beefing up their career-and-technical programs amid a growing push to more closely align the skills students accumulate in school with workforce needs. This is an effort being led by school districts around the country to build career planning into curricula for children at earlier and earlier ages.
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