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It explains that CTE can improve graduation, employment, and earnings, with particular gains for Black and Latino students, students with disabilities, and students from lower-income backgrounds. 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D.  \nIn Delaware, Career and Technical Education (CTE) prepares students for life beyond high school by providing practical labor skills, workforce credentials, and early post secondary credits. Some CTE students graduate with the distinction as a concentrator, meaning they complete required coursework in a specific career pathway, such as engineering & technology, health informatics, or marketing. While graduating as a concentrator benefits students in terms of job placement and wages after high school, identification of students as concentrators varies across the country. We partnered with the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) to understand the state’s identification strategies and to see if inequities in identification exist that could prohibit students from accessing the benefits of concentrating. We found modest mismeasurement in concentration status, as well as some inequities in which student subgroups become a concentrator. In this policy brief, we share details on findings and strategies for improving equity in CTE.  \nStudents Benefit from CTE Programming  \nCTE provides high school students opportunities during the school day to explore career pathways while building skills transferable to the workplace. Students who participate in CTE have greater likelihood of graduating high school within four years (Dougherty, 2018; Kulick, 1998), as well as higher predicted earnings that persist 7 years beyond high school graduation (Ecton & Dougherty, 2023) . CTE can also promote equitable outcomes, as it particularly benefits Black and Latino youth, youth with disabilities, youth from lower-income backgrounds, and youth who score lower on eighth grade assessments in terms of anticipated wages after high school and postsecondary enrollment (Ecton & Dougherty, 2023) .  \nThe research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U. S. Department of Education, through R305S210008 to the Delaware Department of Education. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U. S. Department of Education.  \n􀃹 [https://sites.udel.edu/ppe/](https://sites.udel.edu/ppe/) | 􀆼 ppe-info@udel.edu |  @UDPPE  \nStudents who deepen their CTE participation by completing the required coursework to concentrate in a specific career pathway, such as engineering & technology or marketing, see even greater benefits than students who do not concentrate. We refer to these students as concentrators. CTE program concentrators have greater high school graduation rates than those who do not concentrate (Carruthers et al., 2020), are more likely to be employed full time 8 years after graduation, and have greater median earnings 8 years after high school graduation (U. S. Department of Education, 2019) . Further, concentrators with disabilities are also more likely to graduate, obtain competitive employment, and earn higher wages after high school (Carruthers et al., 2020; Wagner et al., 2016) .  \nCTE in Delaware  \nIn Delaware, over 60% of students in grades 7-12 participate in CTE (Delaware Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education, 2023) . By comparison, about 49% of students participate in CTE nationally (Association for Career and Technical Education, 2021; National Center for Education Statistics, 2019) . Delaware has invested ample resources in enhancing CTE programming to prepare students for the workforce, such as establishing an Advisory Council and the Delaware Pathways Promise. Given the state’s priority for CTE, it is important to ensure all students equitably access programming so that they can benefit from the investment.  \nCTE Identification and Measurement  \nWhile concentrating in a CTE career pathway benefits students beyond general CTE participation, federal guidance does not provide a uniform definition of how states should classify","cbCaibsIVtDHHF01","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibsIVtDHHF01","pdf",463998,"English","# Students Benefit from CTE Programming\n# CTE in Delaware\n# CTE Identification and Measurement\n# Delaware Historically Identified Concentrators at the Local Level","[{\"question\":\"What does CTE do for Delaware students after high school?\",\"answer\":\"CTE prepares students for life beyond high school by providing practical labor skills, workforce credentials, and early postsecondary credits.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the brief define “concentrators” in CTE?\",\"answer\":\"In Delaware, students are considered concentrators if they complete two or more sequenced CTE courses within a career program of study.\"},{\"question\":\"What equity concerns does the study find in CTE identification?\",\"answer\":\"The study reports modest mismeasurement in concentration status and inequities where some student subgroups are more likely to become concentrators.\"}]","Promoting Equity through CTE - Addressing Data Challenges to Help More Students Access Benefits | PDF",1792059908,15]