TAACCCT Round Three Is on the Street!
On April 19th, the U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor, announced the availability of $474.5 million to create and expand innovative partnerships between...
View ArticlePay for Success Financing
The President’s 2014 Budget Proposal includes several Pay for Success pilots. The Office of Management and Budget at the White House says the following about this new way of financing: “Pay for Success...
View ArticleRegister for OVAE’s May 14 Webinar on the Role of Community Colleges in...
Update: Registration is now open for the webinar. Click here to register. The third event in OVAE’s 2013 community college webinar series will be held on Tuesday, May 14 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. EDT....
View ArticleHow Articulating the Registered Apprenticeship Certificate to College Credit...
Now more than ever, maintaining America’s competitive edge requires that workers obtain relevant post-secondary credentials and that employers have access to a well-trained and highly-skilled...
View ArticleOVAE Visits with 12 for Life Program Representatives
Last week OVAE hosted several visitors from the 12 for Life program to learn more about their innovative education, training and employment program aimed at vulnerable youth in Carrollton, GA and...
View ArticleCollege-Bound Students Choose CTE Pathways in High School
Rutgers University. Yale University. Northeastern University. Stevens University. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. These are among the colleges that seniors from Union County...
View ArticleNext week: OVAE at the National Career Clusters Institute
OVAE will be sharing updates and information at the 2013 National Career Clusters Institute in Fort Worth, Texas next week. Hosted by the National Career Technical Foundation of the National...
View ArticleJoin a Webcast from the Career Clusters Institute
Participate in the the live webcast on Applying Lessons Learned from Career Technical Education to Adult Career Pathways by tuning in online and submitting questions via social media. The event will be...
View ArticleCollege and Career-Ready Conversations in South Seattle
Cross-posted from the U.S. Department of Education blog. “Tonight, I’m announcing a new challenge: to redesign America’s high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech...
View ArticleTransforming CTE for the Global Economy
Johan Uvin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Policy and Strategic Initiatives for OVAE, was a featured panelist at the 2013 U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference in Austin, TX on June 18. The session,...
View ArticleTomorrow–Webinar on Building a System of High-Quality Career Pathways
The National Center for Innovation in Career and Technical Education (NCICTE) will be presenting the first webinar in a four-part series on Building a System of High-Quality Career Pathways: High...
View ArticleJuly 10 Release Event of OECD Report on Postsecondary CTE in the U.S.
REMINDER: The New America Foundation will be streaming the release event of the OECD’s U.S. country report on postsecondary CTE tomorrow, Wednesday, July 10 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET. Click here...
View ArticleOECD Report on Postsecondary CTE in the United States Now Available
Last week the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a special OVAE- and NCES-funded report on the state of postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) in the...
View ArticleMaine CTE: It’s Not Your Parents’ Vocational Education
Cross-posted from the U.S. Department of Education blog. Students at the Biddeford Regional Center of Technology in Biddeford, Maine are excited about learning — and they’re eager to tell you why....
View ArticleJoin OVAE in San Antonio at the National Career Pathways Network
OVAE will be contributing insights and updates at the 2013 National Career Pathway Network conference in San Antonio, Texas on October 14 and 15, 2013. The event is hosted by the Center for...
View ArticleBack-to-School Bus Tour – Day 4
This is the fourth in a series of daily updates from Dr. Sharon Lee Miller who is on the Back-to-School Bus Tour currently in progress in the Southwest U.S. Thursday evening – Local Phoenix Time – It’s...
View ArticleAdvancing CTE in Transportation Pathways
The U.S. Department of Education announces Phase II of the Advancing Career and Technical Education (CTE) in State and Local Career Pathways Systems project. The first phase enabled Colorado, Kansas,...
View ArticleWebinar Tomorrow on Career Pathways
Tomorrow the National Center for Innovation in Career and Technical Education (NCICTE) will host its second series of training on transforming high schools. The first of the five part series is a live...
View ArticleOffice of Vocational and Adult Education Becomes Office of Career, Technical,...
Cross-posted from the U.S. Department of Education blog. February is Career and Technical Education (CTE) month, and what could be more fitting than to announce that the name of the Office of...
View ArticleCelebrate CTE Month!
Each year the Department of Education highlights the important role CTE plays in the lives of students and our country. February is Career and Technical Education month and CTE partners across the U.S....
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