Sec. 2. Findings
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Congress finds the following: Career and technical education prepares students to be college and career ready by providing core academic, technical, and employability skills. Eighty percent of students taking a college preparatory academic curriculum with rigorous career and technical education courses met college and career readiness goals, compared to 63 percent of students taking the same academic core who did not experience rigorous career and technical education courses.
Students concentrating in career and technical education improved their 12th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress scores by 8 points in reading and 11 points in mathematics, while students who took no career and technical education courses did not increase their mathematics scores and only increased reading scores by 4 points. The average high school graduation rate in 2008 for students concentrating in career and technical education programs was 90 percent, compared to the average nationwide high school graduation rate of 75 percent.
Partnerships between businesses and educators help adults build academic, technical, and employability skills through education and on-the-job training.