Career readiness. It is a phrase du jour in the education world and the impetus for conversations about 21st-century career and technical education programs. What’s often missing from the conversation, however, is the sober acknowledgment that most programs are of sub-optimal quality and inadequately delivered. Research suggests that simply taking a course or two in career […]

Al Passarella
Al Passarella is a research and policy analyst with the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, with a current research focus on career and technical education and the development of alternative pathways to college and industry readiness.