In this journal article, published in August 2021, AIR researchers used longitudinal data from Massachusetts that link high school course-taking records in career and technical education (CTE) to postsecondary student outcomes to provide the first empirical evidence linking characteristics of CTE teachers to later student outcomes.

This report discusses three CTE-related research topics: (1) The associations between participation in CTE programs and later student outcomes, and the potential for variation in relationships across CTE career clusters and student groups; (2) the associations between CTE teacher qualifications and later student outcomes; and (3) student entry into Massachusetts’s RVTSs.