Career or Academic Education – Does it Matter?

Not only is career and technical education nothing to laugh at, it’s a way to replace the unrealistic “college for all” bias of public schooling with a greater degree of practical preparation for lucrative and rewarding careers in fields like nursing, desktop publishing, computer networking and the building trades.

So says a report called “Schools That Work” being released today by the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank. After a year spent studying New York’s 21 career and technical education high schools (CTEs for short), the report concludes they are “one of the most overlooked, underfunded and misunderstood parts of the city’s education system.”

NY Daily News – May 15, 2008