Career and Technical Education

This report is a continuation of the Youth Policy Lab’s (YPL) examination of access to career and technical education (CTE) programming. Whereas our 2022 policy brief titled How Access to CTE Varies Across Michigan Schools and Students analyzed this...

Despite much attention paid to the issue, educational inequality remains a consequential source of injustice in our society. For example, students of color and economically disadvantaged students are more likely to be taught by less qualified, lower...

Career and Technical Education (CTE) could offer one way of bolstering educational attainment among and providing valuable job skills to students with disabilities (SWD). These programs cultivate work readiness and can help students prepare to...

KRESA Superintendent David Campbell approached YPL to ask for assistance identifying CTE programs the center should offer. Specifically, Superintendent Campbell is focused on implementing programs that will prepare students to enter high-wage...

In part as a result of these trends, high school career and technical education (CTE) programs have emerged as a popular strategy for improving young people’s chances of finding – and keeping – stable jobs. Taught by former industry professionals...

Grow Detroit’s Young Talent (GDYT), Detroit’s citywide summer youth employment program, serves as an introduction to the workplace for thousands of youth across Detroit every year.  By providing youth the opportunity to cultivate professional skills...

Even as the U.S. economy has climbed out of the Great Recession, the labor force participation of low-skill workers has lagged. In many high-poverty urban areas, more than half of low-educated men have exited the labor market.1 In Detroit, 22...