Information Clearing House
The Information
Clearing House is provided for you as a selection of information to help
keep you abreast of information related to career and technology education.
Further information can be found on the
Reading
List
page of the Tech Prep Blog.
Career Majors
“Results That Matter: 21st Century Skills and High School Reform,” http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/RTM2006.pdf
Retooling Career Technical Education, an Issue Brief from the NGA Center for
Best Practices, 2007
http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0706TECHED.PDF
Preparatory Services
Rigor at Risk, Reaffirming Quality in the High School Core Curriculum, by ACT
http://www.act.org/path/policy/pdf/rigor_report.pdf
Using Rigor Relevance and Relationships to Improve Student Achievement, SREB published Best Practices, 2004
http://www.sreb.org/programs/hstw/Outstanding/04V08_2004 Outstanding Practices.pdf
Professional Development
National Staff Development Council: Standards for Staff Development
K-12 Professional Development: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap05_profdev_effectiv_41935.pdf
Planning and Conducting Professional Development That Makes a Difference - A Guide for School Leaders http://www.sreb.org/programs/hstw/publications/profdev/00V02_ProfDevGuide.pdf
Teacher Professional Development: It's Not an Event, It's a Process: http://www.cord.org/uploadedfiles/HarwellPaper.pdf
Growing your own leaders: the impact of professional development on school improvement
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/media/7B7/B8/growing-your-own-leaders.pdf
Accountability
The Silent Epidemic, great website with state data, position papers, recommendations, and other resources.
General Education
Reinventing the American High School for the 21st Century
http://www.acteonline.org/policy/legislative_issues/upload/ACTEHSReform_Full.pdf
Remaking Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century, What Role for
High School Programs, by Richard Kazis, Jobs for the Future and Aspen
Institute
http://www.wa-acte.org/pdf_files/remakingCTE.pdf
Restoring Value to the High School Diploma the Rhetoric and Practice of
Higher Standards, Norton Grubb and Jeannie Oakes, 2007
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Executive Summary:
http://www.greatlakescenter.org/docs/Policy_Briefs/Grubb Oakes_Standards_EXEC_SUM.pdf -
Full Brief: http://greatlakescenter.org/docs/Policy_Briefs/Grubb Oakes_Standards.pdf
The World is Flat, A Brief History of the 21st Century, Thomas L. Friedman
The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent,
Richard Florida
Educating the Net Generation, Diana G. Oblinger and James Oblinger, Editors,
http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen
