Katherine Hughes

For this project, the research team will provide evidence on the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of Virtual Enterprises (VE), a virtual work-based learning (WBL) program. Many high schools are struggling to ensure that all graduates are prepared for college and the workforce, and employers consistently report difficulty in finding workers with sufficient employability skills, such as teamwork and communication. A growing number of education practitioners and researchers have argued that inco...

This project team serves as a research network lead for the Expanding the Evidence Base for Career and Technical Education (CTE) research network. They are responsible for the CTE network administration and coordination, and they carry out research, training, and dissemination activities designed to increase the number and quality of CTE impact evaluations and strengthen the capacity of the field to conduct future CTE research and evaluation. The specific aims of this CTE Network are to incr...