The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) places a strong emphasis on the alignment of Career Technical Education (CTE) programs of study with state, regional and local economies. Specifically, the legislation requires Perkins-funded programs to prepare students for "high-skill, high-wage, or…

Prior research has classified strategies to facilitate adult learners' transitions to postsecondary opportunities into five broad categories: advising, General Educational Development-plus (GED-plus), English as a second language, career pathways, and college preparatory (Zafft, Kallenbach, & Spohn, 2006). This two-part study relied on…

Research was initiated to investigate the concept of "network" as it related to the development of an occupational information system in Minnesota. Forty-eight users and producers of occupational information located in a number of Minnesota agencies were interviewed, with primary atention given to those agencies represented on the…

This investigation into the "reasonable" expectations for post high school employment and education effects of secondary school vocational education makes use of follow-up data to focus on (1) the process of measuring the difference made by secondary vocational education and (2) the likely difference made in Minnesota. (Author)

This report discusses the procedure used to provide information describing the present and projected interference between labor supply and demand as a part (Table I) of the Minnesota State Plan for Vocational-Technical Education. Chapter 1 briefly reviews previous and on-going research work which serves as a basis for the procedure. Chapters 2 and…

Minnesota and Wisconsin technical college personnel (25 presidents, 63 counselors, 23 placement officers, and 34 alternates) considered training-related labor market information most important in program maintenance decisions; advisory committee input for program modification decisions; employer input for adding programs; and cost for dropping…

In the first half of this report a format or framework is outlined for displaying occupational supply and demand information for use in planning education for work programs. In the second half, the use of the procedure is demonstrated by filling in the format with Minnesota supply and demand information (1970-71) and drawing from it illustrative…