Shaun Dougherty

This team will serve as a network lead team for the Extending the Reach of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Research network. As lead, they will coordinate the work of IES-funded CTE research teams and support the development and dissemination of new CTE research knowledge. They will coordinate a learning community of its member research teams, conduct an evidence review of work-based learning (WBL), offer a research training institute with a focus on equity in CTE research, and bridge r...

The research team is examining the impact of attending a career technical education (CTE) high school on students' achievement, high school graduation, and college enrollment. In recent years, there has been an increasing focus among educators and policy makers on the possibility of CTE to meet the growing need for career readiness among students. However, there is limited causal evidence to support the promise of alternative secondary education models that focus on CTE. This study used admi...

The purpose of this exploration project is to better understand the landscape of career and technical education (CTE) teachers and the relationship of CTE teacher characteristics to student outcomes. Much is known about the role teachers play in student learning for core subjects and about the challenges districts face in recruiting and retaining teachers. Yet when it comes to CTE, there is little to no information about which CTE pathways have the most teachers with industry experience, whe...