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February is Career and Technical Education Month

by GroundBreak Staff Report on February 4, 2022

Career and Technical Education Month® is a public awareness campaign that takes place each February to celebrate the value of CTE and the achievements and accomplishments of CTE programs across the country. CTE Month is generously sponsored in 2022 by the National Association of Home Builders. Learn more and find tools to help raise awareness about…

Topics: Technical Schools
CTE

Perkins Act a Step in the Right Direction for Construction Workforce Development

by Brian Gallagher on June 18, 2018

America is a land of opportunity, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the construction industry. It’s the classic American story where someone can start on the ground floor (literally) and work their way into a highly technical profession, or management, or entrepreneurship, or all the above. The challenge is connecting job seekers to…

Topics: Education, Featured
CTE, Education, Perkins Act

Connecting Industry to Education in the Carolinas

by Rachel Burris, Communications Manager, NCCER on January 19, 2018

With the shortage of skilled craft professionals within the construction industry estimated to be at 1.5 million by 2021, it’s no secret that recruitment needs to be a priority. It takes time to educate, train and gain competency and industry can’t postpone recruiting fresh talent, particularly with 41 percent of the experienced workforce set to…

Topics: Education, Featured
CTE, donations, Fluor, NCCER

EdGate Creates the Largest Career Technical Education Standards Database

by GroundBreak Carolinas News Editor on March 26, 2016

Publishers can accelerate sales to the fast growing Career and Technical Education market using EdGate’s CTE repository, correlation services and publisher tools. Career Technical Education (CTE) and Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) standards are provided through the EdGate repository. With the addition of 500,000 CTE standards, EdGate’s repository now houses over three million standards, making it the…

Topics: Apprenticeships, Workforce
CTE, EdGate, Technical Education

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