Students attending CTE high schools in Philadelphia were more likely to successfully complete a college preparatory mathematics sequence than those attending other schools in the district.1
CTE can engage students and help them gain academic knowledge and skills, in addition to technical and employability skills.
Today’s featured data is from research with students in Philadelphia that found positive academic impacts from attending a CTE high school, including students being more likely to complete Algebra I, Algebra II and Geometry. Other research has shown how CTE-academic integration fosters achievement: The Southern Regional Education Board has found that high school students who take an integrated CTE and academic curriculum are more likely to meet college and career readiness goals than those taking an academic curriculum alone.2
When sharing this information with policymakers, education leaders or parents, follow it up with data about your students’ achievement in CTE and in their academic courses, as well as stories of students who have succeeded through an integrated, aligned and rigorous curriculum.
As always, you can access CTE facts and figures online any time you need them with ACTE Fact Sheets.
[1] Neild, Boccanfuso and Byrnes, The Academic Impacts of Career and Technical Schools: A Case Study of a Large Urban School District, Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Organization of Schools, 2014.
[2] Southern Regional Education Board, High Schools That Work 2012 Assessment.
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