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Report: What We Know About the Impact of Career and Technical Education: A Systematic Review of the Research

This report (PDF, 35 pages) describes research literature on career and technical education (CTE) spanning the past 20 years. The literature review addresses the following research questions: 

  • Which types of CTE programs have been the focus of studies that make causal claims? 

  • What is the impact of CTE program participation on student outcomes? Specifically, does CTE have impacts on students’ secondary-level outcomes, their postsecondary educational outcomes, and their employment outcomes? 

  • When examining the combination of CTE program types and relevant outcomes, for which combinations are there gaps in the causal research? 

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