Research Reports
- Pathways to Prosperity
This 2011 Harvard Graduate School of Education study focuses on the need for multiple options for higher education besides college and provides compelling evidence that Career and Technical Education (CTE) that integrates work and learning is a superior way to learn and to help many youth find jobs after school completion. The report argues that the workplace is clearly the place to “test out” a career choice and is by far the best venue in which to learn the “21st century skills” critical to success in today’s economy. Also, it maintains that work-linked learning is extraordinarily powerful in engaging students who are turned off by conventional classroom instruction and/or a purely academic program.
- Conducting Return on Investment Analyses for Secondary and Postsecondary CTE
From the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, this report demonstrates the impact of CTE programs on students’ employability.
Critical Workplace Skills for Virginia’s Economic Vitality
From the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center, this report "summarizes recent national reports and the results of our communication with Virginia employers," research which led to the New Workplace Readiness Skills for the Commonwealth.- Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue
From the Council of Chief State School Officers, this draft “offers for public dialogue and comment
a set of model core teaching standards that outline what teachers should know and be able to do to help all
students reach the goal of being college and career ready in today’s world.”
- CTE and Business Partners: Bridging Education and the Economy
This issue brief from the National Association of State Directors of CTE Consortium concerns the partnerships among businesses, high schools, and community colleges to develop rigorous CTE programs.
- Global firms in 2020: The next decade of change for organisations and workers
From The Economist, this report is the result of a survey of 479 senior executives from companies including Google, Ernst & Young, Manpower, and IBM. -
College Completion Agenda
The College Board reports that as of 2008, only 41.6% of 25- to 34-year olds had attained an associate degree or higher in the United States.Their 2010 report offers 10 recommendations for increasing that number to 55 percent by the year 2025 in order to make America the leader in educational attainment in the world.
- A Sharper Focus on Technical Workers: How to Educate and Train for the Global Economy
A National Governors Association for Best Practices featuring the Automotive Manufacturiing Technical Education Collaborative
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America’s Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation’s Future
- Tough Choices or Tough Times: Executive Summary
(Full report available from CTE Resource Center library)
Archived Reports
