A New Teacher's First Year
A new CTE teacher shares the story of her first year of teaching
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A Role to Play in School Reform
CTE is playing a role in helping students meet the state standards for achievement in Chesapeake, VA.
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A State of Growth
In Georgia, there are some schools in the technical college system that have experienced a lot of growth, and others that appear ready to follow.
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Adult Workforce Education is Reaching out to Displaced Workers (All Access)
In Lima, Ohio, the Apollo Career Center meets the retraining needs of the community’s displaced workers.
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Advocates Take Message to Capitol Hill
At the ACTE 2007 National Policy Seminar, educators became better prepared advocates for career and technical education.
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Amazed and Renewed (All Access)
Professional development is a great way to keep learning and growing, but it can also mean a renewal of energy and enthusiasm for teaching.
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An Education in Diversity (All Access)
but they all share the need for an education that will prepare them for the future workplace., The changing face of the American classroom reflects many races and cultures
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An IT Mentoring Program
In Washington, D.C., a career center is pairing students with mentors to help those students succeed in today’s information technology workplace.
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Are the Stakes Too High?
There has to be a way to measure student success, but are high-stakes tests the best way?
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Auburn Career Center: A Model for Interdisciplinary & Team Teaching
At schools such as Ohio’s Penta Career Center, academic teachers and career teachers are working as a team to increase student learning.
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Basic Utility Vehicle Design Competition
The Institute for Affordable Transportation is engaging secondary and postsecondary students in its efforts to build a car for humanity.
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Body Language in the Classroom
Nonverbal communication is a powerful tool, so it is important for teachers and administrators to understand the messages they are sending and receiving.
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Bright Ideas for Dark Days
With winter on the doorstep, Dauna Easley shares some tips on brightening those dark days.
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Building 21st Century Schools
CTE programs for the 21st century require suitably high-tech facilities.
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Building a Culinary Arts Academy
An award-winning family and consumer sciences teacher built interest in her program by building a culinary arts academy at her school.
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Building a Future for Future Builders
Chicago’s ACE Tech High School is helping attract young people to careers in the building trades.
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Building Futures Together (All Access)
In Palm Beach County, Florida, career academies are providing students with choices and great opportunities.
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Businessman's Efforts Help Reinvent Valley Tech
In Upton, Massachusetts, one local businessman helped revive Valley Tech’s manufacturing technologies program.
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Camels and Camshafts
How the University of Georgia is helping to improve career and technical education in a Persian Gulf neighbor of Iraq, the United Arab Emirates.
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Career Academies: Cutting-Edge Reform or Passing Fad?
An innovative approach to education reform begun more than 30 years ago, the career academy concept has continued to grow.
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Career and Technical Education at Tribal Colleges
Native American students are benefiting from career and technical education, but at tribal colleges, there are some unique aspects to the programs.
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Career and Technical Education is Real. And Real Important.
The fact that school leaders promulgate the myth and tell parents that all students will complete a college education is wrong, and it is a lie.
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Career and Technical Education Works for Rural Communities
A strong career and technical education system, such as the one in Oklahoma, may be key to preserving our rural communities.
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Career and Technical Student Organizations Building Our Future
CTSO students today are preparing to become outstanding citizens of tomorrow.
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Career Clusters…At Home in State and Schools
Work on development of career clusters continues under the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium.
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Career Focus Auto
A four-part special "Career Focus" supplement about today's automotive service technician careers.
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Career Focus: CAD/CAM
Career and technical education students are training for a new dimension of design and manufacturing.
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Career Focus: Culinary Arts — Education for a Taste of Success
Lorain County JVS
Lehigh Career and Technical Institute
Johnson & Wales University
A Passport to Success
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Career Focus: HVACR - A Field Where the Job Climate is Good
It’s a cool field where the job prospects are hot. That’s the message that a lot of trade associations and education organizations are trying to get out about heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR), and they have the statistics to back them up.
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Celebrating 100 Years of Flight
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brother's historic achievement, we look at some of the aviation and aerospace technology education programs that will keep us flying high.
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Centered on Teacher Training
A wide array of services and resources make up the formula for successful teacher training at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Center for Technical Education.
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Charge Up You Career
IBEW and the Quad Cities NECA chapter have partnered with an Illinois school district’s Minority Teacher Incentive Program to make students aware of career opportunities in the electrical field.
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Community Support Gives Rise to New Penta Career Center
An old facility gets a new lease on life thanks to a vision and business and community support.
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Conducting a Social Network Audit
Two experts in social networking offer advice for educators on how they can teach it to their students to help them reach their career goals.
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Crafting Hope
The Artisans Program at Covenant House Washington is offering young people hope and a chance for a successful future.
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Creating Reality-Based Technology Training Through a Partnership of Contractors and a Community College
Creating Reality-Based Technology Training Through a Partnership of Contractors and a Community College
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Educational Leadership: Rigor & Relevance
ACTE member John Gaal interviews Willard R. Daggett, president of the International Center for Leadership in Education, on roles and responsibilities in educational leadership.
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Elements of an Effective Mentoring Program
Building an effective mentoring program begins with a good design.
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Establishing a Clear System Goal of Career and College Readiness for All Students
The first article in a yearlong series focuses on the first recommendation in ACTE’s high school reform position statement.
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Exploring the World through Job Shadowing (All Access)
On Groundhog Day—and throughout the year—job shadowing givesstudents the opportunity to explore the real-world workplace.
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Food for Thought
A culinary arts program mixes the spices from the varied cultures of its students and helps create an atmosphere of multicultural understanding.
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Gateway's Horizon A Center of Excellence
Gateway’s new Horizon Center for Transportation Technology was the product of collaboration with business and industry, community support and a federal grant.
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Get Ready, Get Set, Get to Work!
The manager for career services with the Home Builders Institute advises students to bring their soft skills along with their hard hats when they enter the construction field.
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Helping Our Students Believe in Themselves
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Helping Your Students Manage Their Time
It is one of the most important soft skills you can teach your students.
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Hidden Gems
Many valuable internship and experiential learning programs go undocumented. Here are some excellent examples from Pennsylvania.
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Improving reading proficiency through CTE
Reading skills may be improved by incorporating content literacy into the CTE classroom.
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Integrating Occupational and Academic Skills Across the Curriculum
Curriculum integration is helping students make connections between academics and technical skills.
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Interdisciplinary and Team Teaching: How Do We Make It Work?
At schools such as Ohio’s Penta Career Center, academic teachers and career teachers are working as a team to increase student learning.
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Is Smaller Better?
Many educators today support the idea that a smaller learning environment is better for students.
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Is That Clock Broken?
Making the most of an uninspiring professional development activity takes a little effort, but it can be done.
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Its Time Has Come for You and Your Schools
Project Lead The Way is attracting students to engineering and technology-based careers, and that is certainly an idea whose time has come.
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Keeping Kids in School: The Power of CTE
A report from the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education on the growing body of research that links high school CTE to reducing the likelihood of youth leaving school prematurely.
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Knowing Our Place in the Community
Career and technical education programs often have special connections with the places where they are based.
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Making a Great First Impression
Appearance, attitude and actions are things you can teach your students to help them make a great first impression.
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Making the Case for Tech Prep
The evidence is starting to come in, and it makes a strong case for tech prep.
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Meeting the Challenges of Urban Education
In cities across the nation, career and technical education is helping schools meet the needs of their students.
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Mentoring New Teachers
An Ohio career center built its teacher mentoring program from the inside out.
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Motorcycle Diaries
An instructor at Minnesota's South Central College turned his love of motorcycles into a way to save the school's Computer Integrated Machining program.
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Move Beyond "Seat-Time" and Narrowly Defined Knowledge and Skills
The continuing series by ACTE’s Public Policy Department focuses on another one of the recommendations in ACTE’s high school reform position statement.
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Moving on Up
There are a number of technical schools and community colleges across the country that are reporting tremendous growth.
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National Academy Foundation at the forefront of high school reform
The National Academy Foundation under its president, John Ferrandino, is a leader in the career academy approach to smaller learning communities.
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National Careers in Construction Week (All Access)
NCCER is dedicating the week of October 17-21 as the first annual National Careers in Construction Week.
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Never Stop Growing
Career and technical educators participate in professional development activities that help them continue to grow and ensure the best education for their students.
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Not Just for CTE Teachers
At the Upper Rio Grande College Tech-Prep Youth Consortium, academic teachers are connecting education and careers through professional development.
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Not Just New–Newly Reborn
A new school can mean more than simply a newer facility; it can mean a rebirth into an even better program, such as the one at the Clyde C. Miller Career Academy in St. Louis.
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Oklahoma’s Mid-Del Tech Center Meets the Electric Vehicle Training Challenge
How an Oklahoma technology center answered the call for a specialized training program that contributes to clean air and enhances the state's economic development.
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Organize for More Time
A business education teacher offers some organizational solutions to help teachers better manage their classrooms and their time.
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Partners in Community Service
At Vermont’s Stafford Technical Center, community service is part of “The Stafford Way.”
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Perkins Funding Again Threatened in Bush Budget
Overview of February 2004 Bush Administration's FY 2005 budget proposal for career tech.
Summary of ACTE's Perkins reauthorization recommendations.
Proposed Funding Cuts for CTE- The Potential Impact on Your State.
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Preparing a Facilities Master Plan
The second in the series of articles from architectural and engineering firm Burgess & Niple shares the steps to take in creating a facilities master plan.
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Process Versus Product
In career and technical education, sometimes the learning process is just as important as the product created.
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Putting it into Context
A University of Georgia study includes case studies of new teachers who applied contextual teaching and learning strategies in their classrooms.
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Race Issues in Career and Technical Education: A Snapshot in Black and White
Commentary and recommendations on the issue of low participation of African Americans in career tech education.
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Redefining CTE: Seizing a Unique Opportunity to Help the "Neglected Majority" Become World-Class Students, Workers and Citizens
U.S. public education is caught up in a tug of war between the need for globally competitive workers and the demand for higher academic achievement.
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Retraining Displaced Workers (All Access)
Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, provides a source of hope and opportunity for the area’s
displaced workers.
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Sharing the Language of Learning
In West Chicago, a clothing class is welcoming newcomers with book bags and help with learning how to use the local library.
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Soft Skills: The New Curriculum for Hard-Core Technical Professionals (All Access)
By teaching soft skills as well as technical skills, career and technical educators will better prepare their students for success in a technical career.
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Standing Still in a Time of Change
Getting career and technical education started on the path toward beneficial changes.
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Student Career Planning Conferences in Tulsa Middle and High Schools Help Students and Parents
Individualized Career Planning conferences at both the middle and high school levels are a catalyst for students to consider how academic interests and their other special talents can be directed into career choices.
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Student Portfolios 101
This follow up to our May portfolio stories provides more helpful information for teachers and their students.
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Student Portfolios: Documenting Success
A portfolio documents a student’s educational progress and can help in obtaining a good job following graduation.
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Students, Start Your Engines
the Y.E.S. program uses drag racing to inspire students to explore their career options.
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Supervising Sparkling Students
By building relationships with the college students she supervises in a cooperative education teaching program, a career and technical educator is learning to see her students' gifts and the gifts they will be able to bring to their own students in the future.
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Sustaining a School-to-Career Initiative
School-to-career programs offer benefits for the entire community, so community involvement can play an important role in keeping them going.
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Teacher Portfolios: Displaying the Art of Teaching
A portfolio can showcase a teacher’s experience, accomplishments, style and talent.
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Teaching Life Skills for Student Success
A program in Chicago Public Schools is teaching students the skills they will need to transition from school into successful careers.
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The Art of Mentoring (All Access)
Mentoring is an art that is being perfected in organizations such as the High Tech Girls Society and through partnerships such as the one between a health care system and a high school in Texas.
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The Bristol Tech Prep Consortium’s Women in Technology Program
The Tech Prep Consortium at Bristol Community College is at the forefront of collaborative education initiatives with its development and implementation of the Women in Technology (WIT) Project-Based Learning Program in High Tech Manufacturing.
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The CORE Connection
CTE and the academic subjects that make up the core curriculum can work together to improve student learning.
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The Fiber Optics Connection
As the use of fiber optics grows, career and technical education programs are preparing technicians to meet workforce demand.
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The Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Fluor Fernald Partnership
In Greater Cincinnati, a company’s partnership with career and technical education helps prepare its workers for new careers as their current jobs are phased out.
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The Highly Qualified Teacher under NCLB
There are resources available to help clear up some of the confusion about the highly qualified teacher requirements under the No Child Left Behind Act.
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The New Career and Technical School
Michigan's new Romeo Engineering & Technology Center is an example of a 21st century career tech school that offers a complete education by bringing together academics and career skills.
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The New, the Newly Reborn and the Growing (All Access)
Career and technical education has a role to play in meeting the needs of our growing school population.
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The Presentation After the Presentation
Many speaking situations really involve two presentations: the formal presentation and the question-and-answer period. You can ensure success with both presentations by using these techniques for the question- and-answer period.
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The Secret of Classroom Management
Two experienced career tech educators share advice on creating a well-managed classroom.
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Tips for Taming Time (All Access)
Author and former teacher Sandy LaBelle returns this month with ideas to help teachers tame their time-management problems.
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Today's Construction Academies
Recognizing that today's construction academies are building tomorrow's careers, the Associated General Contractors is using grant money from the U.S. Department of Labor to help establish new Construction Career Academies.
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Unions, Contractors and CTE (All Access)
The Illinois Employer Advocacy Initiative has been successful in its efforts to promote positive relationships between career and technical education and unions and contractors.
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Using Contextual Instruction to make Abstract Learning Concrete
The value of contextual instruction has been demonstrated in career and technical education classrooms where it is used.
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Using Humor in the Classroom
Teachers use many tools in the classroom to ensure their students are learning and remembering what they learn. Humor is sometimes one of those tools.
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Vital Virtual Hands-On Learning
How a CTE instructor is working in partnership with the physics instructor to bring scientific principles to life for students.
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Warehouse Worriors Take on Industrial Educators
CTE came out a winner when students from industrial education programs at two universities battled it out on a cable television network.
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Water, Water, Everywhere yet Do I Dare Drink?
A career academy in Florida presents an example of excellence in interdisciplinary education.
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Why go Robo?
Educators are using robotics to teach complex science, math and technology topics, and students are having fun learning.
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Wiring Student Certifications to Industry Careers
A Networked classroom wired by students has been a hit at education trade shows, including the ACTE Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo.
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Working Models: Why Mentoring Programs May be the Key to Teacher Retention
By now, most everyone in education has heard the staggering statistic from the U.S. Department of Education: An estimated two million new teachers will need to be hired over the next 10 years.
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Working Smarter, Not Harder, Part IV
Tips for teachers.
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Working the Math
Research Associate Donna Pearson with the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education reports on professional development in the organization’s Math-in-CTE project. |
