Career and Technical Education Alignment Across Five States

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Celeste Carruthers, University of Tennessee; Shaun Dougherty, Boston College; Daniel Kreisman, Georgia State University; Thomas Goldring, Georgia State University; Roddy Theobald, American Institutes for Research; Carly Urban, Montana State University; Jesus Villero, University of Pennsylvania. The Wharton School

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Project Citation: 

Carruthers, Celeste, Dougherty, Shaun, Kreisman, Daniel, Goldring, Thomas, Theobald, Roddy, Urban, Carly, and Villero, Jesus. Career and Technical Education Alignment Across Five States. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/E208007V2

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We describe alignment between high school career and technical education (CTE) and local labor markets across five states—Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Tennessee, and Washington. We find that CTE is partially aligned with local labor markets. A 10-percentage-point higher share of local jobs related to a CTE career cluster is associated with a 3-point higher rate of CTE concentration in that cluster. Women and students from racial or ethnic minority groups are better aligned with local employment than men, in part due to their selection of CTE fields like Education & Training, Health Science, and Hospitality & Tourism, which correspond with a large portion of the workforce in almost every metro area. We find more limited evidence of dynamic, short-term adjustments in CTE after changes in local labor markets. A small degree of realignment lags the labor market by two-to-three years and is only observed following changes in college-level employment.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Smith Richardson Foundation

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Career and technical education; Labor market alignment; Secondary education
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Montana, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Michigan
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 8/1/2010 – 6/30/2020 (2011 - 2020 12th grade cohorts)
Universe:  View help for Universe
  • Twelfth grade career and technical education students in public schools.
  • Total employment by metro/nonmetro area, year, and occupation
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source See our data access document.
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Area, CTE cluster, and year
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit BLS metropolitan or nonmetripolitan area

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