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Long time advocate and researcher of career and technical education.
Manufacturing CTE Enrollment Surges 22 Percent as Reshoring Drives Demand for Trades Graduates
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Manufacturing CTE Enrollment Surges 22 Percent as Reshoring Drives Demand for Trades Graduates

Manufacturing-focused career and technical education programs reported a 22 percent increase in enrollment nationwide during the 2025-2026 academic year, according to data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics…
Posted by Bob Young May 25, 2026
Building Industry Partnerships That Outlast Grant Cycles: A Playbook for Sustainable Work-Based Learning
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Building Industry Partnerships That Outlast Grant Cycles: A Playbook for Sustainable Work-Based Learning

The cancellation of 19 federal Career-Connected High Schools grants in 2025—$48.6 million in expected funding evaporated overnight—taught CTE programs a hard lesson. Grants launch partnerships. They don't sustain them. When…
Posted by Bob Young May 21, 2026
Pennsylvania's $65 Million CTE Investment Is Reshaping How Pittsburgh Students Enter the Workforce
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Pennsylvania’s $65 Million CTE Investment Is Reshaping How Pittsburgh Students Enter the Workforce

When ninth graders at Penn Hills High School walk into the PHorge Robotics lab, they are not sitting through a lecture on theoretical engineering concepts. They are earning an industry…
Posted by Bob Young May 19, 2026
Feds Merge Workforce and CTE Planning for the First Time: 17 States Already On Board
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Feds Merge Workforce and CTE Planning for the First Time: 17 States Already On Board

The U.S. Departments of Education and Labor announced a significant policy shift on May 13, 2026, that will change how states plan and fund career technical education. For the first…
Posted by Bob Young May 18, 2026
Building Stackable Certification Pathways: A Four-Year Framework That Actually Works
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Building Stackable Certification Pathways: A Four-Year Framework That Actually Works

Here's the problem with the way most CTE programs handle industry certifications: they treat them as a senior-year event. Students spend three and a half years building skills in a…
Posted by Bob Young May 14, 2026
Massachusetts Drops $70 Million on CTE: 2,500 New Seats Signal a National Playbook
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Massachusetts Drops $70 Million on CTE: 2,500 New Seats Signal a National Playbook

When Governor Maura Healey stood inside Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School in Marlborough on April 30 and announced more than $70 million in Career Technical Education capital grants to…
Posted by Bob Young May 11, 2026
Project-Based Blended Learning for CTE
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Project-Based Blended Learning for CTE: A Framework You Can Deploy Monday Morning

How to combine independent digital modules with collaborative hands-on lab work — without sacrificing technical rigor or safety. CTE instructors face a tension that doesn't exist in most academic classrooms:…
Posted by Bob Young May 7, 2026
PLTW STEM to CTE Pathway
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How PLTW’s STEM-to-CTE Pipeline Is Reshaping Career Readiness — and What Philadelphia Can Learn

When engineering students at Philadelphia's Swenson Arts and Technology High School open their PLTW lab kits each fall, they are not completing a textbook exercise. They are building the same…
Posted by Bob Young May 7, 2026
Perkins V FY26 Funding Guidance
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Congress Finalizes FY26 Funding as OCTAE Rolls Out New Perkins V State Plan Guidance

A rare alignment of federal CTE and workforce funding streams gives state and local directors a narrow window to act. Congress passed a full-year FY2026 appropriations bill in late April,…
Posted by Bob Young May 4, 2026
NCCER Credentials Overview
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NCCER Credentials: What They Are, Who Developed Them, What They Cost, and Where They Lead

What NCCER Actually Is The National Center for Construction Education and Research — NCCER — was founded in 1996 by a consortium of major construction companies and industry associations. It…
Posted by Bob Young May 1, 2026

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