When career and technical education (CTE) is accessible, relevant, and equitable, everyone wins: Students prepare for in-demand, well-paying jobs; employers connect with qualified workers; and communities build capacity and resiliency from within. Improve CTE equity and access for your students by pairing your local knowledge and data with our expertise in research, collaboration, and professional development. From comprehensive local needs assessments to addressing equity gaps in CTE, we can help build your capacity to make data-driven program and policy decisions that put students on the road to a meaningful, sustaining career in your community.
Career & Technical Education Specialties
Senior Expert, Career Education & Workforce Development
Senior Leader, Applied Research & Equitable Evaluation
Principal Researcher & Data Sharing and Security Lead
CTE and accelerated learning courses are associated with positive outcomes for students, including high school graduation, college enrollment, and college persistence.
Accountability indicators contained within the federal Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act have a profound effect on career and technical education (CTE).
An expert shares how program-level CTE staff can use data they already collect to make programs more equitable and accessible.
After-school employment has great potential to reinforce and expand on classroom learning—if students, educators, and employers collaborate.
States are developing comprehensive educational data systems that contain a wealth of student data spanning the pre-K, K-12, and postsecondary education systems.