American Youth Policy Forum Meeting on Federal and State Policies to Support Career and Technical Education
A Discussion Group — January 29, 2008
Federal and State Policies to Support Career and Technical Education, with Betsy Brand, Director, American Youth Policy Forum; Anne Stanton, Program Director, James Irvine Foundation; Gary Hoachlander, Executive Director, ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Careers; Domenic Giandomenico, Director of Government Relations, National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium; and Scott Hess, Chief, College and Career Transitions, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education. The meeting allowed for discussion of a number of key topics affecting career and technical education (CTE), including:
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CTE’s role in high school reform efforts and multiple pathways to graduation;
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National and state accountability and assessment systems and their relationship to CTE and 21st Century skills;
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Quality of CTE instruction and teacher credentialing;
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Improved linkages between secondary and postsecondary education in CTE fields; and
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Role of NCLB in supporting high quality CTE.
A summary of the meeting with recommendations will be posted shortly.
The following documents provide information and guidance about a range of policy issues affecting CTE and high school reform:
Policy Issues Affecting CTE from AYPF Forums
Pathways ConnectEd: Why Pathways? The California Center for College and Career
Achieve.org: The Perkins Act of 2006, Connecting Career and Technical Education with the College and Career Readiness Agenda
NGA Center for Best Practices: Retooling Career Technical Education
NASDCTEc: High School Reform Principles Legislative Committee
The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional development organization based in Washington, DC, provides learning opportunities for policy leaders, practitioners, and researchers working on youth and education issues at the national, state, and local levels.
AYPF’s events and policy reports are made possible by the support of a consortium of philanthropic foundations: Carnegie Corporation of New York, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WT Grant Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, C.S. Mott Foundation, and others.