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Plank, S., DeLuca, S., & Estacion, A. (2005). Dropping Out of High School and the Place of Career and Technical Education: A Survival Analysis of Surviving High School. //National Research Center for Career and Technical Education //.

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED497348.pdf


 * 1) " Career and technical education has evolved from what has traditionally been called vocationaleducation."
 * 2) " During the past 10 or 15 years, there have been efforts to enhance and modify vocational educationprograms so that they not only prepare students for jobs but also increase educational attainment-- both by raising students’ probability of completing high school and by increasing the number of students entering and completing postsecondary programs."
 * 3) "In recent years, between 90 and 96% of United States high school graduates have taken at least one CTE course during high school"
 * 4) "Rumberger (2001) reports that, despite a long-term upward trend in high school completion in the United States approximately 5% of all high school students drop out of school in any given year"
 * 5) " Klerman and Karoly (1994) estimated that 37% of a national sample of young men who were 14 to 21 years of age in 1979 quit high school for at least a 3-month period sometime before high school completion."