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Career and Technical Education

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Education in the technical, academic, and workplace skills needed for students to enter current or emerging careers or engage in further education or job training, commonly offered in secondary schools, community or technical institutes, and trade schools. For education in the skills needed to evaluate potential careers, use "Career Education." Prior to 2025, the descriptor "Vocational Education" was used to index this subject.
Category: Subjects of Instruction
Broader Terms
Education
Narrower Terms
N/A
Use this term instead of
Adult Farmer Education
Adult Vocational Education
Agricultural Education (Vocational)
Beginning Farmer Education
Career and Technical Education Administrators
CTE
Fire Science Education
Health Occupations Education (Vocational)
Occupational Home Economics
Prevocational Education
Prevocational Training
Service Education
Tech Prep
Technical Education
Technical Education Directors
Technical Instruction
Trade and Industrial Education
Two Plus Two Tech Prep
Two Plus Two Tech Prep Associate Degrees
Vocational Agriculture
Vocational Business Education
Vocational Directors
Vocational Education
Vocational Education Directors
Vocational Industrial Education
Vocational Training
Young Farmer Education
Related Terms
Agricultural Education
Allied Health Occupations Education
Apprenticeships
Business Education
Business Education Teachers
Career Academies
Career and Technical Education Schools
Career and Technical Education Teachers
Career Counseling
Career Education
Career Pathways
Community Colleges
Continuation Students
Contract Training
Cooperative Education
Credentials
Employment Potential
Experiential Learning
Individualized Transition Plans
Industrial Arts
Industrial Education
Information Science Education
Job Placement
Job Shadowing
Job Skills
Job Training
Labor Force Development
Noncollege Bound Students
Occupations
Paraprofessional Personnel
Postsecondary Education
Relevance (Education)
Research Coordinating Units
School Business Relationship
Secondary Education
Situated Learning
Special Needs Students
Technical Institutes
Technology
Vocational Adjustment
Vocational English (Second Language)
Vocational Interests
Vocational Rehabilitation
Work Based Learning
Work Experience Programs
Added to ERIC: 7/8/2008