Wednesday, March 2, 2011

The Road Less Traveled: Realizing the Potential of Career Technical Education in the California Community Colleges

IHELP’s newest report, funded by the James Irvine Foundation, examines four high-wage, high-need career pathways in the California Community Colleges as a basis for exploring the Career Technical Education mission and its role in the college completion agenda. The study found that the potential of CTE to help meet the state’s completion, workforce, and equity goals is not fully realized due to a lack of priority on awarding technical certificates and degrees and an absence of clear pathways for students to follow in pursuing those credentials. The report offers recommendations to strengthen the CTE function including: reexamining the structure and function of occupationally-oriented associate degrees; offering fewer, more consistent CTE programs that clearly meet regional needs; and having students formally declare a program of study, with colleges ensuring that students have access to the classes they need for those programs.

Information Technology is one of the focus areas of the study, and some of the challenges and problems in ICT related programs are identified.


The Road Less Traveled: Realizing the Potential of Career Technical Education in the California Community Colleges

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