Insights to point your program in the right direction.
Expert thought-leadership, research, and analysis from the counselors, educators, and leaders behind Pathful — the thinking that makes career readiness and development make sense.
Back to school with confidence: how Pathful users can maximize first-month impact
Five research-backed ways Pathful users can activate Career Plans, WBL pipelines, and Course Planner data in the first 30 days of school.
From guidance office to career path: how career readiness platforms support undecided students
How CRD platforms give counselors scalable tools for undecided students — from static interest inventories to connected course planning.
Work that actually matters: how Industry-Led Projects are changing what career readiness looks like
Career days and job shadows reach a fraction of students. Here's how Pathful's Industry-Led Projects bring authentic, employer-designed work into every classroom.
Back to school with confidence: how Pathful users can maximize first-month impact
Five research-backed ways Pathful users can activate Career Plans, WBL pipelines, and Course Planner data in the first 30 days of school.
From guidance office to career path: how career readiness platforms support undecided students
How CRD platforms give counselors scalable tools for undecided students — from static interest inventories to connected course planning.
Work that actually matters: how Industry-Led Projects are changing what career readiness looks like
Career days and job shadows reach a fraction of students. Here's how Pathful's Industry-Led Projects bring authentic, employer-designed work into every classroom.
From policy to classroom: how federal and state changes are helping students build a plan for life after high school
From Perkins V to statehouse diploma redesigns, the policy landscape is shifting fast — and states are leading the way.
What is Perkins V reporting for school districts?
The federal performance indicators, who has to report, and how career readiness platforms centralize the data compliance requires.
Connecting career exploration in high schools to student ILPs
How school counselors and CTE leaders can turn exploration into a living, documented roadmap for every student.
7 counselor-friendly career readiness platform features
A practical evaluation checklist for comparing career readiness platforms by the features that genuinely support counselors.
The students running CTSOs today are running companies tomorrow
The quiet pipeline that's producing America's most work-ready graduates.
From vision to verified
How state CTE leaders drive real career readiness — from policy intent to documented outcomes.
The complete Perkins V application toolkit
A step-by-step guide for CTE directors — CLNA templates for all five required elements, a budget worksheet, and the mistakes to avoid.
The complete work-based learning partnership builder
Cold outreach templates, internship agreement forms, a workplace mentor guide, and a partnership tracking system for WBL coordinators.
Why is postsecondary success becoming harder to achieve?
Success is declining — not for lack of ambition, but because students reach the threshold without the skills and pathway knowledge they need.
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Addressing critical workforce shortages in skilled trades
America's skilled trades sector stands at a crossroads. What are we doing about it?
What happened to apprenticeships?
The evolution of skilled-trades training in America — and what we lost along the way.
Why career readiness can't wait
MIT research on the urgent need for a new approach to preparing students for the workforce.
The teetering majority
Stanford research on why most students need structured development, not just more options to explore.
Why career readiness and development matters
Closing the gap between graduate preparation and employer expectations — the research case for moving from one-time exploration to continuous development.
Are today's students really less prepared for work?
“New graduates just aren't ready for the real world anymore.” Is that true — and what should schools do about it?
Pathful appoints Ryan Schwartzberg as Chief Commercial Officer
Veteran EdTech leader with deep career-readiness expertise joins to drive market expansion and customer success.
How CTE is preparing students for the future of work
Career and Technical Education is in a renaissance across America's K–12 schools. But is it enough?
The future they envision
What 41,840 students tell us about the lives they expect to build — what they'll earn, where they'll live, how they'll save.
SkillsUSA partners with Pathful to deliver work-based learning to members
Bringing virtual job shadows and career experiences to SkillsUSA student members nationwide.
Riverside Unified School District
California's largest CTE continuum mandate, met and exceeded, scaled across 42K students at 59 schools.
Gwinnett County Public Schools
How a leading Georgia district transformed CTE, empowering teachers and redefining student futures, in partnership with Pathful since 2015.
Jefferson County Public Schools
How Kentucky's largest district tracks and meets state graduation standards for every middle and high schooler, district-wide.
MSD Lawrence Township
Scaling dual-language, industry-led work-based learning across a large suburban district with minimal operational strain.
Colorado Dept. of Labor & Employment
How a state agency expanded workforce development, career evaluation, education, and training for all residents.
Clarksville-Montgomery County School System
A Tennessee district builds a custom Pathful curriculum that maps to state standards, and gives leaders the data behind it.
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