How Career and Technical Education Can Help Students be College and Career Ready: A Primer

How Career and Technical Education Can Help Students be College and Career Ready: A Primer

Synopsis

If educators and policymakers are to make good on the national commitment to graduate more students from high school prepared to face postsecondary challenges, schools must continue to improve career technical education (CTE), ensuring that students have access to high-quality pathways to success. This brief written by AYPF and issued by the College and Career Readiness and Success Center at the American Institutes for Research provides an overview of the evolution of CTE in the U.S., reviews what CTE looks like in practice, and highlights issues CTE faces in the field that must be overcome for it to become an impactful and wide-reaching strategy for preparing students for postsecondary success. It also discusses the importance of these programs for allowing students the opportunities to acquire the competencies required in today’s workplace, and to learn about different careers by experiencing work and workplaces.

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