CTE Classes Are Popular, but Only 25% of Students Take Courses That Could Lead to the Nation’s Biggest Industries, New Study Finds

CTE Classes Are Popular, but Only 25% of Students Take Courses That Could Lead to the Nation’s Biggest Industries, New Study Finds

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

This is the latest article in The 74’s ongoing ‘Big Picture’ series, bringing American education into sharper focus through new research and data. Go Deeper: See our full series.

Business, marketing, tourism and manufacturing make up more than half of U.S. jobs — but students in high school probably don’t know that.

Only one-quarter of the career and technical education classes students take are focused on these industries, according to a new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C.

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