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 provides an overview of the evolution…

Traces the development of vocational education programs through the manual training movement of the 1880s, the creation of the Commission on National Aid to Vocational Education in 1914, and the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917. Discusses five key values intrinsic to the vocational education movement and why current programs have not met their promise.…

It is believed that superintendents and principals, school board members, teachers, and employers and other lay citizens--in fact, all those persons who help to decide on public-school curriculum have need for a bulletin in which information is made available concerning work experience education programs. They should be informed about selected…