Tracking and the Future of Career and Technical Education: How Efforts to Connect School and Work Can Avoid the Past Mistakes of Vocational Education
Description:
This brief examines the issue of how schools can support career exploration and readiness for all students without disproportionately sorting students into distinct tracks based on demographic characteristics. The authors discuss the history of vocational education with a focus on the role of tracking as well as the transformation of vocational education into career and technical education. The brief includes recommendations on how to emphasize equity in CTE programs.