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Peer reviewedWatba, Utem K. – Workforce Education Forum, 2001
Creates awareness of the need for more research related to the planning, development, and implementation of tech prep programs and explains why it is needed. (Contains 27 references.) (JOW)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Integrated Curriculum, Postsecondary Education, Research Needs
Reese, Susan – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers, 2003
Describes a program in Virginia in which academics and career and technical education work together and the state's Standards of Learning are being integrated. (JOW)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Educational Change, Integrated Curriculum, Secondary Education
Grevelle, Julie – High School Magazine, 1999
The next generation of Tech Prep is about pedagogy, integrated academic and technical courses, standards, and provision of student directions and alternatives. The vision has four elements: providing a new curricular structure, breaking the teaching/learning mold, establishing a new educational role for employers, and creating family and community…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Employers
Techniques: Making Education and Career Connections, 1996
A group of leaders in vocational education answer questions about the future of vocational education, tech prep, applied academics, and school-to-work. (JOW)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Education Work Relationship, Futures (of Society), Postsecondary Education
Peer reviewedAnderson, Lowell D. – Journal of Technology Studies, 1995
Tech-prep programs are built on the premise that youth must become involved in the development of a technological society. Several models for integrating tech prep with academic education hold promise. (JOW)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Integrated Curriculum
Gray, Kenneth – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
In the face of growing sentiment against career and technical education, the author asks readers to take a hard look at the advisability of limiting high school students' options. The viability of high school vocational education--now called Career and Technical Education (CTE)--is once again being questioned. The current federal Administration…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Policy, Tech Prep, Academic Education
Peer reviewedBragg, Debra D.; Layton, James D. – Community College Review, 1995
Describes a study examining the impact of the Tech Prep Education Act on the initial implementation of federally supported Tech Prep Initiatives. Based on telephone survey responses from all 50 state Tech Prep leaders, reviews findings concerning the funding of Tech Prep consortia, state and local administrative structures, policies and goals, and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Administrative Organization, Community Colleges, Consortia
