Career & Technical Education

Briefs

09/21/2007

Exemplary CTE Districts and Programs with Gary Hoachlander, Executive Director, ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career, Michael Hanlon, Founder, Health Careers Academy at Palmdale High School, California, Michael Owens, Associate Secretary, Adult Education and Workforce Development, Delaware Department of Education, Patrick Savini, Superintendent, Sussex Technical School District, Delaware (Forum Brief)

07/20/2007

The Role of Career and Technical Education in High School Reform: Linking Secondary and Postsecondary Education through CTE with Dr. Laurel Adler, Superintendent, East San Gabriel Regional Occupational Program, West Codiva, CA and Mark Whitlock, CEO, Central Education Center, Coweta County, GA (Forum Brief and webcast)

06/22/2007

The Role of Career and Technical Education in High School Reform: State Efforts to Integrate CTE with Rigorous Standards with Patrick Ainsworth, Assistant Superintendent for Secondary, Postsecondary & Adult Education, California Department of Education, Kathy Oliver, Assistant State Superintendent, Maryland Department of Education, and Alex Harris, Senior Policy Analyst, National Governors Association (Forum Brief and webcast)

05/10/2007

The Role of Career and Technical Education in High School Reform: Career and Technical Education Responding to Industry Needs with Phyllis Eisen, Vice President, The Manufacturing Institute and Executive Director, The Center for Workforce Success, Duane Crum, California State Director, Project Lead the Way (Forum Brief and webcast)

01/26/2007

Results from A National Study of Mathematics in Career and Technical Education with Jim Stone, Prinicpal Researcher, University of Minnesota, Joe Fullerton, Program Development Specialist, Lenape Technical School, Ford City, PA, and Jeff Linko, Teacher, Lenape Technical School, Ford City, PA. (Forum)

11/20/2006

 

Academic and Workforce Development Programs for Court-Involved Youth, A Youth Development Approach with Thomas M. Buzbee, Executive Director, Gulf Coast Trades Center and Joe McLaughlin, Court Employment Project Director, CASES (forum BRIEF)

09/29/2006

Secondary-Postsecondary Learning Options: Best Practices in the Field with Ron Kindell, Director, Miami Valley Tech Prep Consortium, Chery Wagonlander, Principal, Mott Middle College High School, and Jennifer Brown Lerner, Program Associate, American Youth Policy Forum (FORUM Brief)

05/19/2006

Career and Technical Education's Role in High School Reform with the Association for Career and Technical Education (Forum brief)

07/22/2005

Employer-School Partnerships: The Role of Education in Workforce and Economic Development:  with Mark Whitlock and Don Moore, Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board, Central Education Center in Coweta County, GA, Jeff Dole, Administrator, Lansing Area Manufacturing Program, Lansing, MI, and Connie Thompson, UAW-GM Human Resources Center. (Forum Brief)

12/1/2004

Career Academy National Standards of Practice. Conducted in conjunction with The Career Academy Support Network, National Academy Foundation, National Career Academy Coalition and the National High School Alliance. With presentations by John Ferrandino, President, National Academy Foundation, Charles Dayton, Coordinator, Career Academy Support Network, Betsy Brand, Director, American Youth Policy Forum, Susan Sclafani, Counselor to the Secretary and Assistant Secretary, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, Emily DeRocco, Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, Andy Chaves, Director, Youth Programs, Workforce Effectiveness and Diversity, Marriott International, Inc., Ed Rudzinski, General Manager, Washington Wardman Park Marriott Hotel, Connie Majka, President, National Career Academy Coalition and Travis Brown, Principal, Beaumont High School, St. Louis, MO Public Schools, moderated by Naomi Housman, the Director of the National High School Alliance. (Forum brief)

10/3/2003

Improving Labor Market Prospects for Youth: Evidence from Career Academies, This forum featured evidence of how Career academies provide students with interpersonal support, link academic curriculum with career-related courses, and foster career awareness through school partnerships with employers. (Forum Brief)

4/25/2003

Keeping America Competitive: How a Talent Shortage Threatens U.S. Manufacturing, with Phyllis Eisen, National Association of Manufacturers, Tom Heywood, Pikes Peak Community College, and Rito Martinez, Intel Corporation. (Forum Brief)

7/27/2001

Trends Affecting the Education of 16-24 Year Olds, with Tony Carneval, Vice President, Educational Testing Service. (Forum Brief)

11/17/2000

Academy of Information Technology: A New Career Academy Model, with representatives from CORD and the National Academy Foundation. (Forum Brief)

3/28/2000

Intermediary Organizations: How Does Federal Policy Affect Their Success in Developing Quality Local Education and Workforce Development Systems? with Richard Kazis, Vice-President, Jobs for the Future; Steve Trippe, Executive Director, New Ways to Work. (Roundtable Discussion)

1/21/2000

Do Career Academies Work? with James Kemple and Jason Snipes, Manpower Development Research Corporation. (Forum Brief)

9/16/1999

What Works in Youth Employment and Training: A Discussion With the 1999 PEPNet Awardees. (Forum Brief)

6/4/1999

What Next After the School to Work Opportunities Act Sunsets? with Hilary Pennington and Richard Kazis, Jobs for the Future. (Forum Brief)

4/30/1999

Integrated Career Preparation System, with Arnold Packer. (Forum Brief)

9/12/1997

Connecting Service Learning and School-to-Career Initiatives, with Barbara Gomez, Council of Chief State School Officers; Ann Southworth, Principal, Putnam Vocational Technical High School, Springfield Massachusetts; Diane Tyson, Principal/Director, Lancaster County Academy, Lancaster Pennsylvania; and Chuck Erickson, Director of Community Education, Flambeau School District, Tony, Wisconsin. (Forum Brief)

6/30/1997

Creating School-to-Work Systems: Partners in Progress, with Alan Hershey, Mathematica Policy Research. (Forum Brief)

4/25/1997

Is There Really a School-to-Work Revolution? with Lynn Olson, Senior Editor, Education Week. (Forum Brief)

1/31/1997

School-to-Careers and Service-Learning: A Partnership Strategy for Education Renewal, with Jim Kielsmeier, National Youth Leadership Council; Steve Kussman, Utility Business Education Coalition; Christine Kwak, W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Jim Pitofsky, National Association of Partners in Education; James Willie, National Association of Partners in Education; Laurie Regelbrugge, Hitachi Foundation; and Jim Wernsing, National School-to-Work Opportunities Office. (Forum Brief)

6/28/1996

School-to-Work: Are We Making Progress? with J.D. Hoye, Director, National School-to-Work Office; Mary A. McCullough, Director, Ohio School-to-Work; Katherine Oliver, Assistant State Superintendent, State of Maryland. (Forum Brief)

4/10/1995

Legislative Principles for Career-Related Education and Training: What Does Research Support? with David Stern, Phyllis Hudecki, Allen Phelps and Norton Grubb, National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California at Berkeley. (Forum Brief)

1/23/1995

Promising Practices: A Study of Ten School-to-Career Programs, with Hilary Pennington, Richard Kazis and Hilary Kopp of Jobs for the Future; Patricia Clark, Director, Health and Bioscience Academy, Oakland, CA; Tom Panzarella, Cook Specialty, Green Lane, PA; and a student from ProTech, Boston, MA. (Forum Brief)

10/7/1994

Would You Know a "Skill Standard" If You Saw One? And If You Did, So What? with Joan Wills, Center for Workforce Development, Institute for Educational Leadership. (Forum Brief)

7/22/1994

School Lessons/Work Lessons: Recruiting and Sustaining Employer Involvement in School-to-Work Programs, with Irene Lynn, U.S. Department of Labor and Joan Wills, Center for Workforce Development, Institute for Educational Leadership. (Forum Brief)

4/4/1994

Home-Grown Lessons: Innovative Programs Linking Work and High School, with staff of the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation Report. (Forum Brief)

Trip Reports

10/18/2007-
10/19/2007

State Policy Trip to Miami, Florida, October 18-19, 2007: Career Pathways and K-12 Education. Highlights from this trip include meeting with Rudy Crew, Superintendent of Miami-Dade Country Public Schools, as well as other policy and education experts at the state and local levels. In addition, we visited Miami Edison Senior High School, MacArthur South Senior High School, and Robert Morgan Educational Center. (Trip Report)

6/4/2001 -
6/5/2001

School and Community Reforms for Student Achievement in Boston, Massachusetts, with visits to Fenway High School (pilot school), Brighton High School (small career clusters), the Diploma Plus program at Boston Adult Technical Academy, and a Boston Excels full-service community school at Ellis Elementary School. (Trip Report)

3/22/2001 -
3/23/2001

High School Reform and Workforce Development in Baltimore, Maryland, with visits to Patterson High School (Talent Development) and Lake Clifton/Eastern High School (career academies), Civic Works and meetings with representatives of the Mayor’s office to learn about efforts to link education reform with school-to-work and Workforce Investment Act youth council activities. (Trip Report)

10/26/2000 -
10/27/2000

New American High Schools and Reform Strategies in Houston, with visits to New American High School Michael DeBakey High School, Project GRAD and other sites. (Trip Report)

6/1/2000 -
6/2/2000

New American High Schools, a visit to Saunders Trades and Technical High School, Yonkers, NY and Marine Academy of Science and Technology, Sandy Hook, NJ. (Trip Report)

4/8/1999 -
4/9/1999

West Virginia — Jobs Through Education. An opportunity to meet with the Governor and State legislators, learn about the state's new Jobs Through Education legislation and to visit a "High School That Works" in Randolph County. (Trip Report)

3/18/1999 -
3/19/1999

Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan — Non-Traditional Partnerships for Workforce Development. (Trip Report)

1/29/1999

Bergen County Technical Schools' Career Academies, Hackensack, NJ. (Trip Report)

11/9/1998 -
11/10/1998

Sussex Technical High School in Georgetown, Delaware/The Transformation of an Area Vocational School into a Comprehensive Full-Time Technical High School to gain in-depth knowledge of a school that is: (1) implementing School-to-Work, (2) recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a New American High School and a National School of Excellence, and (3) a member of the Southern Regional Education Boards' High Schools That Work initiative. (Trip Report)

9/25/1998

Site Visit to Baltimore, Maryland: Learning in Action: Two Innovative Employment Training and Youth Development Programs, site visits to Baltimore City Fire Cadet Program and Fresh Start, a program within The Living Classrooms. (Trip Report)

10/23/1997 -
10/24/1997

High School Reform and Programs Serving Out-of-School Youth in New York City, with site visits to STRIVE/East Harlem Employment Service, Young Adult Learning Academy, Federation Employment and Guidance Service and several public schools. (Trip Report)

10/10/1997

Integrating Math, Science and Technology in School Reform, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Fairfax County, VA. ("Encore" Trip Report)

5/15/1997

Youth Transitions: High School Reform and Programs Serving Out-of-School Youth in New York City (for education foundation officers), with visits to La Guardia Middle College High School, International High School, High School of Economics and Finance, Vocational Foundation, Youth Communications, and the Young Adult Learning Academy (Co-sponsored with Jobs for the Future and Council for Basic Education). (Trip Report)

3/19/1997 -
3/21/1997

School-to-Careers and Workforce Development in Austin, TX, with visits to the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, Advanced Micro Devices, American Institute for Learning, Bowie High School, and Austin Community College; and meetings with Mayor Bruce Todd and Superintendent James Fox. (Trip Report)

11/16/1995 -
11/17/1995

School-to-Work Transition and Education Reform under the Kentucky Education Reform Act, Louisville, KY. (Trip Report)

10/19/1995 -
10/20/1995

District-Wide School-to-Work System and School Choice in Milwaukee, WI. (Trip Report)

7/7/1995

Greater Southeast Health Care System School-to-Work Transition Project, Washington, D.C. (Trip Report)

5/19/1995

Center for Employment Training (CET) and YouthBuild in Baltimore, MD. (Trip Report)

Publications

View PDF	The College Ladder: Linking Secondary and Postsecondary Education for Success for All Students This compendium identifies and describes schools, programs, and policies that link secondary and postsecondary education to help students earn college credit or take college-level courses while in high school. It raises issues for practitioners and policymakers to consider as these program grow and target a wider range of students.
View PDF Word Document	Summary of the WIA Learning Exchange for Youth Systems WIA Learning Exchange for Youth Systems Supplemental In April of 2002, the General Accounting Office (GAO) submitted a report to Congress outlining the challenges faced by state and local Workforce Investment Act (WIA) youth program implementers. To address these challenges a series of Peer Learning Exchanges (LEX) were developed with three goals in mind. First, the Exchanges focused on three areas of youth programming that needed improvement according to the GAO report: 1) recruitment and retention of out-of-school youth; 2) strengthening the connection among WIA partners, particularly between the education and the workforce communities; and 3) documenting competencies and gains through appropriate assessments and credentials. Second, the Exchanges identified and promoted promising practices among local and state workforce investment areas with regard to successful implementation of youth-related WIA. Finally, the Exchanges aimed to become a model for the delivery of system-wide technical assistance by incorporating visits to exemplary WIA sites, communicating practical experiences, and fostering learning networks. These two reports provide a summary and key findings from the Learning Exchanges. Available online only.
View PDF	Rigor and Relevance: A New Vision for Career and Technical Education With the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act due to be reauthorized in 2003, it is appropriate to ask the question, What should the role of the federal government in Career and Technical Education (CTE) be? To provide one angle on this debate, the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) organized a series of discussion groups with a diverse range of individuals to focus on this topic. The discussion groups helped inform this paper, and while not all participants endorse all aspects of this paper, they are hopeful of a serious review of many of its contents during the reauthorization process.
View PDF	LOOKING FORWARD: School-to-Work Principles and Strategies for Sustainability This thoughtful report is organized around Ten Essential Principles designed to assist policymakers, practitioners and the wider community in thinking about ways to sustain successful school-to-work approaches. These Principles represent a distillation of critical elements of the STWOA used by the field in: improving the school experience for young people; expanding and improving work-based learning opportunities; and building and sustaining public/private partnerships. The report also identifies a variety of federal legislation and national programs that could support these gains, as well as actions for leadership at the local, state, national and federal levels.

 

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