The common Career Technical Core (CCTE) is a set of high quality benchmarks standards for CTE. It is a state-led initiative. CCTE contains ‘end-of-study’ standards for all 16 Career Clusters and their 79 Career Pathways.
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Common Career Technical Core and the Common Core
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College and Career Readiness
Written on October 10, 2012READ MOREHow do schools prepare students to be both college and career ready? The answer often has focused on improving classroom achievement, but that is only one aspect of getting students ready for post secondary school, work, or some combination of these.
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The Health, Well-Being and Educational Success of School-Age Youth and School-based Health Care
Written on September 6, 2011READ MOREThis APHA policy brief argues that even the best teachers and schools can't fully compensate for their students' poor health, hunger, fear and distress, violence, bullying or poverty. But comprehensive school-based health centers can be a huge help.
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Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses
Written on November 3, 2003READ MOREThis Institute of Medicine report, Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses, identifies solutions to problems in hospital, nursing home, and other health care organization work environments that threaten patient safety through their effect on nursing care. It puts forth a blueprint of actions that all health care organizations which rely on nurses should take.
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Always Setting the Standard
Written on October 1, 1997READ MOREPresident Clinton called him "one of the greatest educators of the 20th century."
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The Power of Ideas: Al in His Own Words
Written on June 5, 1997READ MOREThis special 1997 edition of the AFT’s American Educator magazine attempts to capture some of Al’s most important ideas—the ones that inspired his public life, the ones he lived by, the ones that left the most enduring mark.
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Keeping Public Education Together
Written on April 11, 1997READ MOREIn the essay, Al talks about his lifelong dedication to "gaining collective bargaining rights for teachers and using the collective bargaining process to improve teachers’ salaries and working conditions." He also makes it clear that the teacher union movement always had an equally important aim: making schools work better for kids. His tireless efforts, during the past 15 years or so, on behalf of high standards of conduct and achievement and against the fads and follies that threaten to destroy public education were not an "about face" but a logical extension of his trade unionism.The essay closes with Al’s reflections on the reasons for his long fight to preserve and strengthen public education. -
Where We Stand: 800 Words of Weekly Wisdom
Written on April 8, 1997READ MOREWhen Al Shanker died, he was remembered as an eloquent and thoughtful spokesman for school reform, an elder statesman of education. But in 1970, his public image was far different. -
Adding Rooms to the 'House of Labor '
Written on April 6, 1997READ MOREThe AFL-CIO is often called the House of Labor. As with all houses, it was built by the skilled handiwork of plasterers, carpenters, bricklayers, cement masons—and one very great teacher. -
Building a Broader Union
Written on April 5, 1997READ MOREAlbert Shanker could see common threads among professional workers of every stripe.
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