The National Academies Center for Education Planning Meeting on the Role of Career-Technical Education in an Era of Standards and Accountability Public Policy Institute of California Founder's Room, 5th Floor 500 Washington Street San Francisco, CA 94111 November 7-8, 2005 Agenda
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Papers commissioned for this planning meeting: Charles Barone Mike Rose
Monday, November 7
6:30 pm	Dinner at the E&O Trading Company 314 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 (415) 693-0303
Tuesday, November 8
8:00 am	Breakfast available in meeting room
8:30 am	Welcome and Introductions
	Anne Stanton, The James Irvine Foundation
	Martin Orland, Center for Education, The National Academies
8:40 am	Future Possibilities for CTE in California
	Gary Hoachlander, President, MPR Associates, Inc.					Presentation
9:00 am	Session 1: What are the goals of CTE?
	Moderator: Louis Gomez, Professor, Northwestern University
	Roundtable discussion of the following questions:
	• What goals for CTE are included in the current Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act (Perkins III)? What goals are included in Congressional proposals for reauthorization of the Perkins Act, and how do these goals relate to the educational goals embodied in the No Child Left Behind Act?
	• What goals does California have for CTE within the context of its larger goals for high school education? What are the goals of other states?
	• What are the desired educational outcomes of CTE that may help advance the various goals of CTE? (e.g., improved writing, communications, math skills; improved planning and problem-solving ability)
	• Are these goals for CTE appropriate? Do the various goals reinforce each other? Do they compete or conflict with each other?
	• What are the possibilities for achieving these diverse goals?
	Alan Bersin, California Secretary of Education (by speakerphone)
	Kimberly Green, Executive Director, NASDCTeC
	Sheri Ranis, Senior Research Officer, the Gates Foundation
	Mike Rose, Professor, UCLA
	Paul Warren, Principal Analyst, Legislative Analyst’s Office, California Legislature
10:00 am	Questions and general discussion
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Session 2: What research is available on the role of CTE in achieving these goals?
	Moderator: Rob Ivry, Vice President, MDRC
	Presentations addressing the following questions:
	• What data and research are available related to the goals of CTE?
	• What research is available on different types of CTE (e.g., career academies, CTE courses within the comprehensive high schools, cooperative education, job shadowing, career-related clubs)?
	• Are there gaps or areas of disagreement in the available research focusing on particular goals of CTE, such as boosting academic achievement? In the research on particular types of CTE?
	• What is the quality of available published studies (rigor of research design and implementation, timeliness of data analyzed)?
	• What research is currently underway? What is the quality of this research?
	• What research is needed to provide evidence-based information to policymakers?
	Marsha Silverberg, Institute of Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education			Presentation
	Jim Stone, Director, The National Centers for Career and Technical Education			Presentation
	James Kemple, Director, Education, Children and Youth, MDRC			Presentation
11:30 am	Responses to Presentations
	Gay Gilbert, Administrator, Office of Workforce Investment, U.S. Department of Labor Braden Goetz, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education David Goodwin, Division Director, Policy and Program Studies Service, U.S. Department of Education
11:50 am	Questions and General Discussion
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Session 3: Does the available research on CTE meet policymakers’ needs?
	Moderator: Martin Orland, Director, Center for Education
	The panelists will discuss the following questions:
	• Does the available research address your questions? What questions do you have that could be answered by further research?
	• How do you use the available research-based evidence on CTE?
	• In what ways does research inform current CTE policies? What are some promising examples?
	Patrick Ainsworth, Director, Division of Secondary, Postsecondary and Adult Leadership, California Department of Education Mason Bishop, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Workforce Investment, U.S. Department of Labor John Ferrandino, President, National Academy Foundation Beto Gonzalez, Acting Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education David Gordon, Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools
2:00 pm	Questions and General Discussion
2:30 pm	Overview of the National Academies Study Process
	Margaret Hilton, Senior Program Officer, Center for Education
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Session 4: Framing a National Academies Study of CTE
	Moderator: Martin Orland, Director, Center for Education
	Each group is asked to brainstorm three questions that would guide an NRC consensus study on CTE and to provide a rationale—Why is this question critical for a future study? What audience would benefit from answering this question?
3:45 pm	Reporting out by small groups and discussion of proposed questions
	Moderator: Anne Stanton, Program Director, the James Irvine Foundation
4:00 pm	Determine possible guiding questions for an NRC study
	Moderator: Margaret Hilton, Senior Program Officer, Center for Education
	Use three colored dots to vote for the question that you feel are of highest priority. Place your dots on the flipchart papers around the room.
4:15 pm	Report on Voting results, Reflections of the Day and Next Steps
	Rob Ivry, Vice President, MDRC
4:45 pm	Adjourn