CTE and Possible Links to Dropping Out (National Research Center for Career and Tech Ed)

If participation in career and technical education has some relationship to dropping out of high school, we need to understand the nature of this relationship better. Research in this area can have implications for our conceptual understanding of what helps students find attachment to high school. Additionally, research in this area could have policy or practical implications for secondary education, as decisions are made about where dollars should be invested and how curriculum should be organized.

After considering simple descriptive studies and also studies with experimental designs and/or statistical controls, the author concluded that participation in vocational programs increased the likelihood that non-college-bound youth would complete high school. Read more. . .