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Exploring the Role and Effects of High School Advising on CTE Students' Transition to Postsecondary Education and the Workforce
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Julie A. Edmunds; Christine Mulhern; Brian Phillips; Rachel Rosen; John Sludden; James Kemple; Bryan C. Hutchins; Emma Alterman; Cassie Wuest – Grantee Submission, 2024
This paper presents a synthesis of three collaboratively conducted studies exploring the relationship between career-focused advising and the postsecondary transition with an emphasis on students enrolled in Career and Technical Education (CTE). The studies included a survey administered to high school seniors in New York City schools, an impact…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Advising, Vocational Education, Postsecondary Education
Career and Technical Education: Developing a Well-Equipped Workforce
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Grant E. Tharpe – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Evidence today shows that there is a skills gap among employable young adults. This study was based on a Career and Technical Education (CTE) program evaluation that was conducted in a rural school district in northwest North Carolina. The study examined the perceptions of the program by CTE high school teachers, CTE community college instructors,…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Rural Schools, School Districts, Partnerships in Education
Taking Care of Business: Bridging the Skills Gap
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Gatewood, Algie – Community College Journal, 2017
This brief article describes how Alamance Community College, a mid-sized community college sandwiched between two of North Carolina's largest metropolitan markets in Raleigh-Durham and Greensboro-Winston-Salem, has developed several new study programs and initiatives to better service business and industry. Among other things, Almanac has…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Business Relationship, College School Cooperation, Educational Change
They Keep Moving the Cheese: But Charlotte CTE Students Find Passionate Pathways to Prosperity
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Realon, Michael S. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2012
Recent conditions in America's economy have resulted in a period of paradox as high unemployment continues to trouble America at the same time as employers complain about millions of unfilled jobs due to a serious skills gap in the nation's workforce. The prevalence of this economic situation in Charlotte, North Carolina, has caused the Olympic…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Student Projects
High Schools That Have Restructured to Smaller Schools within Schools in North Carolina: What Have Been the Challenges and Obstacles
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Kradel, Robert L., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With the demands on schools to prepare its students to be globally competitive in the 21st century, schools are forced to examine new ways to meet those demands. One of the new reform ideas is that of restructuring traditional high schools into small schools within schools. Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the North Carolina…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Barriers, Rural Schools, High Schools
Social and Emotional Learning as a Catalyst for Academic Excellence. White Paper
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Marchesi, Antonio G.; Cook, Kimberly – ICF International (NJ1), 2012
ICF International's white paper explores how implementation of social and emotional learning (SEL) has the potential to prepare students for workforce success and positively influence student engagement and academic performance while reducing dropout rates. Self-improvement and leadership development sections of bookstores are replete with texts…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Emotional Intelligence, Dropout Rate, Emotional Development