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As students near graduation, career and technical education provides a boost

  • Written by Jay Stratte Plasman, Ph.D. Candidate in Education Policy, Leadership, and Methodology, University of California, Santa Barbara
imageStudents work on an experiment in a biotech class at Antioch High School in Antioch, California. AP Photo/ Ben Margot

For the past decade or so, every American president has sought to use career and technical education – or CTE – as a way to boost achievement and prepare students for the jobs of tomorrow.

When the Bush administration sign...

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