Flexible Pathways to Graduation: Six Vermont High School Students
This video, created by UP for Learning as part of their Communicating School Redesign efforts (partnering with Ned), features six Vermont high school students describing how they have used multiple pathways to personalize and direct their own learning. The students in the video are using a combination of community/work-based learning, virtual and blended learning, dual enrollment, early… Read More ›
CTE in High School: Does It Improve Student Outcomes?
In this article, researchers Shaun Dougherty and Dara Zeehandelaar describe results from their study showing positive outcomes for students who participated in Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. They note that CTE programs may increase student engagement by connecting learning at school with real world use. The article outlines some of the failures of older… Read More ›
Internships Aren’t All About Careers
This blog post by Tristen Gamboa, a junior at High Tech High North County presents a student’s view of the internship experience, and his growing understanding of the concept of ‘deeper learning’. Tristen’s four week internship at the Center for Research on Equity & Innovation (CREI) influenced his thoughts about college readiness and his career path. He… Read More ›
High Schools Create Career Connections
This article explores a modern approach to career and technical education. Using school examples from all over the country, the author introduces a broad array of career programs in a number of industries from film to medicine. In all of the examples, education and industry leaders have worked together to identify the skills needed for… Read More ›
Career Academies and Small Learning Communities
This page of the CTE Research Clearinghouse, managed by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), focuses on career academies. Career academies bring together small groups of students and staff in a learning community focused on strong academics and a career-based theme. Educators interested in this topic will find lists of many resources including… Read More ›
Creating a Buzz with the New Hampshire Manufacturing Partnership
Industry-driven, work-based learning is an important element of an education system that truly prepares students for the real world and provides an “anytime, anywhere” learning experience. This blog was originally posted on the Jobs for the Future website on October 7, 2016. This summer, Governor Maggie Hassan, Commissioner Jeffrey Rose, over 20 New Hampshire manufacturers,… Read More ›
College, Career & Technology Academy Toolkit
This toolkit was designed as a resource for practitioners seeking to prepare off-track, out-of-school youth for postsecondary success. Located in the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District, Texas, CCTA is a dropout recovery school where young people experience themselves as college students rather than high school dropouts. Students take a specific set of courses designed to… Read More ›
Career And Technical Education: Boom Or Bust?
This article discusses the history of Career and Technical Education (CTE) and the current debates around it through an interview with Anthony Carnevale, Director of the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University. The interview explores the history of vocational and CTE in high schools as well as changes in the current economy and the… Read More ›
Digital Portfolios Position Students for Success in the Workforce
This op-ed, by Heather Hiles founder of Pathbrite, an e-portfolio platform, and someone who has spent her entire professional life committed to helping students optimize their academic outcomes and obtain meaningful employment, explains why digital portfolios are so beneficial to students who are embarking on a job search. According to a study from CareerBuilder, 81 percent… Read More ›
Connecting Learning to Careers
In this article, Hamutal Bernstein, research associate at the Urban Institute, explores the many ways that Connected Learning is a personalized approach to learning that is beneficial to students in today’s classrooms. Young people are living their lives in densely connected, media-saturated contexts, connecting to peers through social media. Connected Learning aims to harness this… Read More ›
ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success: K-12 College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Every Student
This set of standards from the American School Counselors Association describes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes students need to achieve academic success, college and career readiness, and social/emotional development. The standards draw from a wide array of educational research, best practices, and existing standards. The 35 standards are divided into mindsets and behaviors counselors should… Read More ›
College, Career, and Civic Readiness: The Case of the Missing ‘C’
This article by Stephen Hamilton, Dean of the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, discusses his observation of the neglect of the idea of “civic readiness” in conversations about preparing students to succeed. He asserts that if career readiness is often neglected, civic readiness is all but forgotten. He also asserts that civic readiness somehow seems… Read More ›