The Brookings Institution’s Higher Education and Workforce Policy: Creating More Skilled Workers (and Jobs for Them to Fill) recommends fostering the creation of quality, family-sustaining jobs and the training that supports them through a three-pronged approach, including:
- high-quality CTE and work-based learning;
- greater resources for two-year and non-elite four-year colleges, based on student outcomes; and
- incentives for employers to create more good jobs.
Author Harry Holzer provides a brief overview of CTE and the benefits of high-quality CTE, with its commitment to academic integration, career exploration and work-based learning, resulting in valuable credentials.
In order to foster high-quality CTE, Holzer recommends creating incentives for work-based learning through employer tax credits and incorporating additional competitive funds, on top of the current basic state grant funding, into the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. He also encourages expanding CTE in the Higher Education Act.
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