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  2. Postsecondary education

Postsecondary education

State Strategies for Financing Career and Technical Education

  • Research/ Report
  • Guide/Tool
October 2014 —

The report, published by the U.S. Department of Education, uses survey data collected from State CTE Directors to examine how state CTE funding is distributed to local secondary and postsecondary programs. States can use this resource to evaluate strategies and best practices

Assessing the Education and Employment Outcomes of Career and Technical Education Students

  • Guide/Tool
July 2014 —

This white paper from RTI International and Advance CTE lays out specific recommendations for how the U.S. Department of Education and future legislation from Congress can provide additional guidance to help Perkins grantees generate more valid, reliable and comparable state data.

Shared Vision, Strong Systems: The Alliance for Quality Career Pathways Framework

  • Guide/Tool
June 2014 —

This framework was created by the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways, a partnership between CLASP and ten leading career pathways states. The framework is designed to support cross-sector development, implementation and improvement of career pathways systems at the state and local levels.

CTE is Your STEM Strategy

  • Case Study
  • Guide/Tool
December 2013 —

This paper from Advance CTE explores the connection and overlap between CTE and STEM education. States can use this resource to help identify connections, to learn from other state strategies, and to develop their own strategies to connect STEM and CTE in their policy, practice and rhetoric.

The State of Career Technical Education: An Analysis of State CTE Standards

  • Research/ Report
October 2013 —

This report from Advance CTE provides a national view on how states adopt, organize and implement CTE standards at both the secondary and postsecondary levels, comparing all state standards to a common benchmark, the Common Career Technical Core.

Expanding Career Readiness through Career and Technical Student Organizations

  • Case Study
  • Research/ Report
June 2011 —

This brief from ACTE reviews and summarizes extant research on Career Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs) to demonstrate how they help learners build academic, employability and technical skills.

Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century

  • Case Study
  • Research/ Report
February 2011 —

Pathways to Prosperity, from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, analyzed the reasons that America has failed to prepare so many of its youth, and suggests a national strategy that focuses on approaches beyond an academic, classroom-based education system.

Conducting Return on Investment Analyses for Secondary and Postsecondary CTE: A Framework

  • Guide/Tool
January 2011 —

This framework by the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE) provides guidance for CTE evaluators seeking to show the positive impact of CTE programs on the economy.