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How to Prepare Students for Careers

Career and technical education has often been considered "less academic" than other classes. But learning how to apply core skills in English and math is important, as is learning employability and technical skills, according to the Association for Career and Technical Education's (ACTE) definition of career ready students. Educators and industry partners can help students learn these skills through...

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Tech Industry Bounces Back, Increases Hiring

The Wall Street Journal (4/16, Tuna, Vascellaro, Tam) reports that based on recent profit increases for companies such as Google and Intel, the tech industry is said to be recovering more quickly from the recession. As a result, companies, including smaller Silicon Valley companies such as Twitter and LinkedIn, are hiring more, in what the Journal calls a...

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Career and Technical Education–An Answer to a Problem

As educational groups gather across the country, session after session is focused on “educational reform”.  The driving force behind the movement for educational reform is the fact that the United States is falling behind in preparing the workforce of the future with what is being called “21st century skills.” The Partnership For 21st Century Skills, a Tucson based organization[i]...

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Department of Education Pledges to Expand CTE

On March 25, the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee hosted a hearing on "Jobs, Training and Education." During this hearing Jane Oates, assistant secretary for the Employment Training Administration in the Department of Labor, and Martha Kanter, undersecretary in the Department of Education, testified.  The majority of the questions from Appropriations Committee members...

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