USA TODAY partnered with the research firm Statista to create the 2025 list of America’s top 250 trade schools.

Vocational education was once seen as a dumping ground for students who couldn’t make the cut for college, but New Jersey’s 66 county-run career and technical schools integrate work-based training ...

How Vocational Education Got a 21st Century Reboot With schools across 10 states, the P-TECH program prepares its students for good jobs that corporations pay well for. By ERICK TRICKEY ...

Nearly a year after Congress reauthorized the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act, states are in the thick of developing the CTE plans the law requires. Over the past three ...

In the U.S. we have never valued "vocational education" that would prepare people from populations needing jobs (like inner-city kids) for good jobs. That means we must reinvent high school, or ...

Vocational education in high schools fell out of favor decades ago. For career and technical education to succeed today, a key researcher says a lot has to change.

Last week Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker proposed an increase of $83.5 million for career and technical education (CTE or VET—vocational education and training—as it is called in most ...

More vocational concentrators enrolled in postsecondary education immediately after high school during the 1990s than did in the 1980s (54.7 percent and 41.5 percent, respectively).

In Iowa today, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan unveiled the Obama administration’s new vocational education plan. The president proposes to revise the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical ...