Whats so special about career & technical education in Missouri?
Technology and global economic competition are combining in unprecedented ways to change work and redefine the Missouri workplace. Unlike jobs a half-century ago, most of Missouri’s jobs that pay family-supporting wages and offer opportunities for advancement demand strong academic and technical skills, technological proficiency, and further education and training beyond high school. Career & Technical Education links learning to earning, and creates a professionally prepared and economically productive workforce. In Missouri, career and technical education offers relevancy to educational experiences in agriculture, business and marketing, health science, family and consumer sciences, industrial technology, and cooperative education. (Within these major program areas, training is provided in more than 260 specific sub-areas as identified in the National Center for Education Statistics, Classification of Instructional Programs.) Missouri’s career and technical education delivery system
