ills “hands on,” especially through internships or other forms of work-based learning. Q: Is there any proof career and technical education works?
Yes, according to many state and local studies. A 1991 New York study of 76,000 secondary vocational graduates found that 6 to 18 months after graduation, 91 percent were productively employed, in the military or enrolled in postsecondary education. A recent large-scale study of 13,000 Ohio vocational education graduates found that seven years after high school, the vocational graduates earned significantly more than a comparable group of non-vocational graduates and the earnings gap between the two groups appeared to widen with time.
