Today ACTE has released CTE: Developing the Information Technology Workforce, the third in our revamped series of Sector Sheets describing CTE’s role in growing the workforce for vital industry sectors. The Sector Sheet series is published with support from ACTE's long-time partner Pearson.
These revised Sector Sheets include job opportunities in each sector and descriptions of how CTE prepares learners for the workforce in each sector, all in a new format featuring streamlined text and additional graphics to make these advocacy tools even more effective.
This Sector Sheet describes how CTE supports the critical information technology workforce, which employs more than 9 million people nationwide and contributes approximately 8.8% to the U.S. economy. It also shares information on occupations, earnings and credentials that give readers guidance for how to enter and progress within fields such as network architecture and administration, software and web services, and cybersecurity and data science. Finally, the Information Technology Sector Sheet demonstrates the importance of CTE in developing the workforce by describing how CTE prepares learners through courses, industry credentials, work-based learning, career and technical student organizations and more.
As we move forward with the revamped Sector Sheets, both the newer and older Sector Sheets will be available on the ACTE Sector Sheet webpage for download and use. We encourage you to share these tools with students, counselors, policymakers and others to spread the message about CTE and its benefits for students and the workforce.
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