Publications
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Accountability & Assessment / Career Academies / Career Clusters and Pathways / Counseling / CTE and the Economy / Dual Enrollment / Funding / High School Reform / NASDCTEc Surveys / NCLB and CTE / Overview of CTE / Perkins IV / Perkins IV Crosswalks / Programs of Study / State Leadership and Government / Teacher Preparation /
- The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts: How Shared Accountability Can Foster Improved Secondary-Postsecondary Collaboration (PDF,63Kb)
- Sharing the Vision of a National Item Bank to Support Career Technical Education Assessment (from NASDCTE Spring 2008 meeting, Technical Assessments Panel)(PDF,126Kb)
Career Academies
- High School Career Academies: A 40-Year Proven Model for Improving College and Career Readiness PDF,126Kb
- September 2009
Career Clusters and Pathways
- Adult Career Pathways leave behind (PDF,136Kb)
- The History of Career Clusters(MSWord,82Kb)
- Career Cluster Research Compendium (MSWord,89Kb)
- Career Clusters and Programs of Study: State of the States June 2007 (MSWord,127Kb)
- Career Clusters: A Plan of Education for a Global Economy (PDF,259Kb)
- Forging New Pathways: Promising Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Students in Career and Technical Education Programs that are Nontraditional for Their Gender (PDF,1.65Mb)
Counseling
CTE and the Economy
Dual Enrollment
- "Dual Enrollment" leave behind
- The Minnesota Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program: Does Participation in Dual Enrollment Programs Help High School Students Attain Career and Technical Education Majors and Degrees in College? (MSWord,371Kb)
- by Pradeep Kotamraju, System Director, Perkins; Minnesota State Colleges and Universities - The Minnesota Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program: Does Participation in Dual Enrollment Programs Help High School Students Attain Career and Technical Education Majors and Degrees in College? (PowerPoint,933Kb)
-by Pradeep Kotamraju, System Director, Perkins; Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Funding
- "Return on Investment" leave behind
- Financing Vocational Education (PDF,168Kb)
- A comprehensive guide to how states finance vocational technical education.
High School Reform
- Reinventing the American High School for the 21st Century - published by the Association of Career Technical Education (ACTE)
NASDCTEc Surveys
- Career Technical Education: A National Perspective (MSWord,3.60Mb)
- Results from a NASDCTEc survey of State Directors, September 2002 - "Career Technical Education: A National Perspective" (MSWord,472Kb)
- Results From a NASDCTEc Survey of State Directors, April 2003 - Through Diversity Comes Strength:
A State Profile/Survey Synthesis of CTE
(MSWord,452Kb)
- Results from the 2005 NASDCTEc Survey of State Directors
NCLB and CTE
- NCLB-Opportunities for CTE (MSWord,134Kb)
Overview of CTE
- CTE 101 (Archive, 2003) (MSWord,95Kb)
- Career Cluster Implementation Across the Nation (PDF,53Kb)
- CTE and CTSOs: Student Success - American Success (PowerPoint,2.29Mb)
- "The Purple Paper": Career and Technical Education: An Essential Component of the Total Educational System (PDF,1.55Mb)
- NASDCTEc's vision paper (Adobe PDF document) - Indicators of Success: CTE and Research (July 2003) (MSWord,98Kb)
- Career and Technical Education: A Value-Added Element of P-16 (MSWord,45Kb)
- New Seals of Endorsement in Career Technical Education (PDF,297Kb)
- by Dr. Joan Wills. - Acronyms for CTE(MSWord,168Kb) January 2009
Perkins IV
- Innovative Uses of Perkins Reserve Funds (PDF,132Kb)
- NASDCTEc's Response to the Department of Education's "Guide for the Submission of State Plans" (Members Only)
- Perkins IV Frequently Asked Questions from the Department of Education/OVAE website
Perkins IV Crosswalks
Comprehensive and standardized mapping of CIP codes and O*NET/SOC occupational codes into career clusters and career pathways (from the PCRN website at http://www.edcountability.net).
- Perkins IV Crosswalks Users Guide (PDF,20Kb)
- Table 1 CIPs in Pathways (Excel,166Kb)
- Table 2 CIP-Pathway-Cluster (Excel,377Kb)
- Table 3 CIP-Nontrad-Cluster-Pathway (Excel,411Kb)
- Table 4 ONETs in Pathways (Excel,169Kb)
- Table 5 SOC-ONET-Nontrad-Cluster-Pathway (Excel,468Kb)
- Table 6 Cluster-Pathway-SOC-ONET-CIP (Excel,3.81Mb)
- Table 7 Primary Occupation and CIP in Pathways (Excel,376Kb)
- Non-traditional for Females from BLS 2006 Final (Excel,152Kb)
- Non-traditional for Males from BLS 2006 Final (Excel,54Kb)
Programs of Study
- Implementing Programs of Study: What, Why and How?(With Accompanying Toolkit Embedded)October 2008(PDF,213Kb)
State Leadership & Governance
- The Importance Of State Leadership For Career Technical Education: A Case Study From Arizona (MSWord,43Kb)
- Mr. Milton Erickson, Arizona State Director for Career Technical Education - September 2003 - State Leadership for Career Technical Education (PDF,305Kb)
- by Dr. Joanna Kister. An Executive Summary (PDF,95Kb) is also available. - The Role of Governance in Supporting Effective Secondary and Postsecondary Partnerships(PDF,154Kb
- Kim Green and Katie Ruffing, NASDCTEc, September 2005 - To Merge or Not to Merge, That is the Question(PDF,214KB)
- Tech Prep Toolkit: Resources to accompany the brief: To Merge or Not to Merge, That is the Question!(MSWord,32Kb)
Teacher Preparation
- Teacher Shortage Undermines CTE(PDF,233Kb)
- Innovative Practices In CTE Teacher Preparation: A Case Study From Missouri (MSWord,41Kb)
- by Dr. Nancy Headrick, Missouri State Director for Career and Technical Education - September 2003 - The Role of Community Colleges in Teacher Preparation (MSWord,63Kb)