From Vocational Education to Career Readiness

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US federal CTE policy across roughly a century.

Historical and policy narrative review of federal innovations and the recurring philosophical debate about whether education should edify or prepare for work. No systematic search, no quality appraisal, no effect estimates. The full registered title is "From Vocational Education to Career Readiness: The Ongoing Work of Linking Education and the Labor Market"; Crossref registers the main title and subtitle separately.

Useful for understanding why the CTE label keeps changing — vocational education, then school-to-work, then career readiness — and for dating the modern career-readiness framing to Perkins-era federal policy rather than to any evidence base. Contains no causal estimates.

Not applicable — no estimates.

A narrative history, not an evidence synthesis, so there is nothing to replicate.