At risk, the report stated, was
the essential promise of public education that: «All, regardless of race or class or economic status, are entitled to a fair chance and to the tools for developing their individual powers of mind and spirit to the utmost.
The
Promise of High - Quality Career and Technical
Education: Improving Outcomes for Students, Firms, and the Economy The College Board, Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality, and
Public Policy, and The Business Roundtable This paper describes the benefits
of high - quality Career and Technical
Education (CTE), elements that are
essential for such benefits to occur and suggests federal and state policies that would support the expansion
of high - quality CTE.
By telling his own story and those
of his students, Vilson shows why teacher voice is
essential to shedding the failures
of the past and to reclaiming the
promise of public education.»