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Download full textDan Adams; Marie Falcone; Jessica Maddox; Emily Passias; Layla Alagic, Contributor; Kate Kreamer, Contributor; Stacy Whitehouse, Contributor – Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2025
"The State of Career Technical Education: Credentials of Value" report draws on a 2024 national scan of state practices, a 50-state survey, and interviews with state leaders to gather insights and strategies for improving the identification, validation, incentivization, and data collection related to credentials that support learners'…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Labor Force Development, Data Collection, Education Work Relationship
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2023
The non-traditional gender occupational divide weakens state economies by decreasing economic productivity and reducing diversity in decision-making. By creating gender parity in which "women participate in the labor force at the same rate as men, work the same number of hours as men, and are employed at the same levels as men across…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Postsecondary Education, Vocational Education, Nontraditional Occupations
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2025
In 2014, RTI International, with the support of Advance CTE, conducted research on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education, which established how states allocated categorical funds for CTE during the academic year 2011-12 and the amounts of those allocations. By returning to this topic 10 years later, Advance CTE seeks to understand how CTE is…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, State Aid, Funding Formulas, Resource Allocation
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2022
This brief, the second in the series, advances a theory of change that centers the learner experience in strategies to improve institutional data collection and use and strengthen college information management systems. It is the second in the Advance CTE's Advancing Postsecondary CTE Data Quality Initiative (PDI) series highlighting five states…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Program Improvement, Data Use, Data Collection
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2020
Intentional and early collaboration between state and local leaders and state coordinators for homeless education is vital to developing solutions that ensure success in Career Technical Education (CTE) programs for learners experiencing homelessness. As many states anticipate the growing rates of homelessness to continue in the coming years, the…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Access to Education, Equal Education, At Risk Students
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2020
The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) places a strong emphasis on the alignment of Career Technical Education (CTE) programs of study with state, regional and local economies. Specifically, the legislation requires Perkins-funded programs to prepare students for "high-skill, high-wage, or…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Alignment (Education), Labor Market, Skilled Occupations
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2020
One of the biggest challenges that states and local intermediaries face in setting up and scaling high-quality youth apprenticeships is gathering relevant, accurate and actionable data. High-quality data is an essential ingredient for a strong youth apprenticeship program because it equips state and local leaders to evaluate impact, monitor…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Youth Programs, Apprenticeships, Data Collection
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2017
Career Technical Education (CTE) can provide an on-ramp for rural learners to access meaningful, high-wage careers while simultaneously strengthening the talent pipeline to meet regional labor demand. Yet rural learners all too often face an uphill battle when it comes to accessing high-quality CTE. Scarce resources, limited regional employers and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Rural Education, Secondary Education
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2022
Early postsecondary opportunities (EPSOs) provide more than 5.5 million secondary learners annually an intentionally designed authentic postsecondary experience (such as dual or concurrent enrollment) leading to college credit that counts toward a recognized postsecondary degree or credential. Career Technical Education (CTE) courses make up…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Postsecondary Education, Secondary School Students, Dual Enrollment
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2020
The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) pushes states to improve the public accessibility of Career Technical Education (CTE) data. According to the law, state agencies, as well as local recipients, must share data on the performance of all CTE students, and subgroups of learners, and make this…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Data Collection
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2020
In summer 2018, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) was signed into law, which provided states the opportunity to reflect, engage with a wide array of stakeholders and partners, reaffirm key priorities and commitments, and identify new opportunities to support learners and their industry partners.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Statewide Planning
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2021
Individual Career and Academic Plans (ICAPs) are a key piece of connected career advising that align learners' career and life goals with academic, postsecondary and career pathway options. ICAPs have different names in different states, including Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) and Individual Graduation Plans (IGPs). They refer to both the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Occupational Aspiration, Goal Orientation, Postsecondary Education
