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Programs and Practices That Work
Preparing Students For Nontraditional Careers
A project of the
Association for Career and Technical Education, the National Alliance
for Partnerships in Equity, the National Association of State Directors
of Career and Technical Education and the National Women’s Law Center.
Click here to view the 2008 Application.
Read a
news blog about the project from The Chronicle of Higher
Education.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this project is to identify local or state educational
agencies across the country that have implemented effective programs and
practices for improving access and success of students pursuing careers
nontraditional for their gender. The project will solicit input from the
career and technical education community to identify programs and
practices that meet the selection criteria. Information on these
effective programs and practices will be shared with the field through a
variety of media in an attempt to provide states and local education
agencies with ideas for development of their own programs and practices
to successfully prepare students for nontraditional careers.
PROGRAMS RECOGNIZED TO DATE
Over the past three years, NAPE and its
partners have recognized eight programs that have improved students'
access to and completion of career and technical education programs that
are nontraditional for their gender.
Click here to view the programs.
REPORTS
As a result of the project, the four sponsors have issued three reports
that describe promising practices for improving students' access to CTE
programs that are nontraditional for their gender:
Forging New Pathways:
Promising New Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Students in CTE
Programs That Are Nontraditional for Their Gender
(2005)
Constructing Equity:
Promising New
Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Students in CTE Programs
That Are Nontraditional for Their Gender
(2006)
Reaching New Heights: Promising Practices for Recruiting and Retaining
Students in Career and Technical Education Programs That Are
Nontraditional for Their Gender
(2007)
ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible, the local or state educational agency submitting the
program or practice must show (1) increased enrollment of students of
the underrepresented gender in nontraditional CTE programs
and/or (2) increased
completion of students of the underrepresented gender in nontraditional
CTE programs.
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