| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Are today’s CTE programs failing to meet the challenge of vocational education? |
| Nat Malkus
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| 发表日期 | 2019-05-06
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Nearly a year after Congress reauthorized the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act, states are in the thick of developing the career technical education (CTE) plans the law requires, and by most accounts, the future looks bright. Indeed, high school CTE programs appear to have turned the corner on “vocational education’s” stubborn stigma from previous decades. Durable stereotypes of “voc. ed.” as a means of tracking or dumping students, or an academic dead-end, are increasingly challenged by a raft of studies that have provided convincing evidence that CTE programs can cause improved student outcomes. In addition, today’s CTE concentrators (students who took three or more courses in a CTE subject) boast solid outcomes more broadly— with advocates trumpeting their increased graduation rates, improved academic motivation, and comparable earnings advantage.
So, can we conclude America’s current CTE offerings have solved the stubborn challenges of vocational education? Maybe not. A detailed look at historical trends of CTE course taking and the composition of CTE course takers between 1982 and 2013 raises serious questions about whether the transformation from vocational to career and technical education may have hidden, rather than solved, the core challenges in vocational education.
What CTE courses are students taking?
Over these three decades, overall CTE course taking declined by more than 25 percent. Breaking out CTE credits by the occupational concentrations (see figure below) illustrates how much business courses, which fell by 75 percent, are responsible for overall losses. A marked drop in typing and word processing classes since the 1980’s, skills now more or less integrated across the high school curriculum, drove the decline of business courses, without which there would be no substantive decline in CTE courses overall. |
| 主题 | Education
; K-12 Schooling
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| 标签 | Career and technical education
; Education Policy
; Vocational education
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/cte-programs-failing-to-meet-the-challenge-of-vocational-education/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/265809
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