Career Readiness Defined
A definition for what it means to be “career ready” recently emerged with the release of “Building Blocks of Change: What it Means to be Career Ready,” by the Career Readiness Partner Council, which is coordinated by the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium. An article in Education Week‘s – Global […]
Read More →The Common Core: Helping to Blur the Lines
By Jan Bray, Executive Director, Association of Career and Technical Education
The Association for Career and Technical Education officially committed support to the Common Core in 2009 because, like many, we believe all states need to have the same rigorous academic standards and that a state-led, rather than national-led, initiative holds the best promise of succeeding. But, the Common Core also holds great potential to accelerate the removal of the imaginary wall that separates core academics from career and technical education (CTE), a factor that is just as important to students’ academic performance and their success after high school.
As the Common Core mission states, “The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers.” Teaching must become more collaborative and engaging in order to meet this mission and an intentional focus on including relevance and real world connections should include career and technical education as the Common Core is planned and implemented. As the conversation about college and career readiness evolves, this connection becomes even more important.
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