{"title":"Tech Prep's Role in Education Reform: Perceptions From State Tech Prep Directors","authors":"S. Ruhland, C. Jurgens, D. Ballard","doi":"10.21061/JCTE.V20I1.624","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Tech Prep has been evolving for over a decade. The fundamental premise of Tech Prep was to respond to the needs of high school students who were often identified as the neglected majority. Tech Prep was designed to provide a program for career preparation and workforce development. According to Bragg (2000a) \"Tech Prep was intended to establish formal articulation agreements identifying seamless and increasingly rigorous academic and careertechnical programs having a logical progression from secondary to postsecondary level\" (p. 221). Tech Prep encourages students to attain higher levels of academic and technical competencies and to continue their education or enter the workforce.","PeriodicalId":170496,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","volume":"275 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21061/JCTE.V20I1.624","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Tech Prep has been evolving for over a decade. The fundamental premise of Tech Prep was to respond to the needs of high school students who were often identified as the neglected majority. Tech Prep was designed to provide a program for career preparation and workforce development. According to Bragg (2000a) "Tech Prep was intended to establish formal articulation agreements identifying seamless and increasingly rigorous academic and careertechnical programs having a logical progression from secondary to postsecondary level" (p. 221). Tech Prep encourages students to attain higher levels of academic and technical competencies and to continue their education or enter the workforce.