This National Center for Education Statistics report describes two course coding systems used to analyze high school transcripts: the School Courses for the Exchange of Data (SCED) and the Classification of Secondary School Courses (CSSC). The report also discusses the development of a crosswalk that enables data coded with the first system to be translated to the second.
This report describes the Secondary School Course Taxonomy, a new system for classifying and analyzing student coursetaking in different subject fields, including CTE. The SSCT uses high school transcripts coded with the School Courses for the Exchange of Data system.
This U.S. Department of Education website provides interactive data maps and charts for learning more about students who focus on CTE in high school. Data are available at both the national and state levels.
This National Center for Education Statistics Data Point report breaks down 2013 CTE coursetaking among public high school graduates in city, suburban, town, and rural schools.
This working paper by CALDER, the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, highlights trends in CTE participation for students with disabilities.
This working paper, by the network research team led by Dr. Shaun Dougherty at Vanderbilt University, examines the effects for students of gaining admission to a stand-alone CTE high school in Connecticut.
CTE programs are enjoying a renaissance, but how can these programs avoid the inequities that plagued vocational education in the past? In this policy brief from MDRC, 14 CTE practitioners tackle this question.
This website provides an overview of the Career and College Promise program.