Career & Technical Education
Read more about classes and programs that are designed to prepare students for work
What Is Career and Technical Education, Anyway?
Find answers to eight commonly asked questions about career and technical education here.
College & Workforce Readiness
Report Chronicles Job Demand for Career and Technical Fields
A new report examines the demand for middle-income jobs that require career and technical training and offers recommendations for encouraging pathways.
College & Workforce Readiness
Common-Core Test Group Eyes State Feedback
PARCC's K-12 and higher education leaders continued their work to and agree on performance-level descriptors for the impending Common Core State Standards assessments.
College & Workforce Readiness
Leveraging Internships for More Than Resume Building
A survey reveals experience in internships builds resumes, but not always gives real-world work experience.
College & Workforce Readiness
Common Assessments: More Than Two Games In Town
Two new systems of college-and-career-readiness tests have recently announced rollouts, adding new players to a landscape dominated by the two groups of states that are designing such tests with $360 million in federal money.
Curriculum
Coalition Seeks Federal Support for 'Comprehensive' Education
Amid concern that funding to promote academic disciplines beyond reading, mathematics, and science is getting squeezed out of the federal budget, more than two dozen education organizations are banding together in a new coalition to more effectively make their case to policymakers.
College & Workforce Readiness
Court Ruling Puts New Gainful-Employment Regulation on Hold
A federal judge declared a portion of the new gainful employment rules are career-training programs without basis, putting implementation up in the air.
College & Workforce Readiness
New Tool Allows Easy Search of Career-Technical Program Performance
American Institutes for Research offers free to for reviewing career-technical program performance by state.
College & Workforce Readiness
Five Percent of For-Profit Career-Training Programs Fail Early Test
The U.S. Department of Education today released data that show 5 percent of career-training programs don't meet any of the three requirements of the new federal gainful-employment rule.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
The Global Aspects of the Newly Released Career and Technical Education Common Standards
I recently wrote about how the Obama Administration's the career and technical education (CTE) plan calls for better collaboration and accountability from all stakeholders, including school districts, universities, and the private sector. An education system aligned to workforce needs that produces globally competent students will propel this country forward. My colleague Heather Singmaster, looks at the latest movements in the field.
College & Workforce Readiness
Grappling With the Definition of Career Readiness
Defining career readiness hasn't been discussed as much by the common standards assessment consortia as has college readiness.
College & Workforce Readiness
Administration Makes Economic Case for College
US Department of Treasury releases report highlighting economic value of college on same day President Obama urges Congress to keep student loan rates affordable.
School & District Management
Common Standards Released for Career and Technical Education
An organization of state directors of career and technical education has released a set of common standards in that subject.
College & Workforce Readiness
New Network Forms to Encourage Pathways from Education to Careers
While the new Common Core State Standards emphasize college and career readiness, some feel "career" has not gotten the attention it needs. Today, a network of educators and policy advocates announced it will be working together with a handful of states to make sure students find opportunities through all kinds of postsecondary training.
College & Workforce Readiness
College Talk: Certificates Are Hot
Unless you've been napping for the last few years, you know that the college agenda is casting a huge shadow over the education policy landscape, with lots of ruminating about preparation, access, success, and completion.