文档介绍：The Minnesota Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program:
Does Participation in Dual Enrollment Programs Help High School Students
Attain Career and Technical Education Majors and Degrees in College?
Pradeep Kotamraju
System Director, Perkins
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Contact Information
500 Wells Fargo Place
30 E. 7th Street
St. Paul MN 55101-4946
pradeep.******@
Tel No: 651-282-5569
Paper Submitted for publication to munity College Journal of Research and Practice, May 2005.
I. Introduction
Seeking reform in education is nothing new. The calls for public education stressing petencies, developing market niches, and generally ing more accountable have e increasingly loud and have ing from all quarters for several years, mostly recently from the National Governors Association and State Higher Education Executive Officers (NGA, 2005; SHEEO, 2005). A few years back, calls arose mainly because of growing work force shortages of skilled workers in newly emerging industries (, 1997; National Alliance of Business, 2000). However, with the recent softening in the . economy, the calls ing from those who have e more emphatic about greater performance and efficient management of publicly funded institutions (MnSCU, 2002; . Department of Education, 2002). Advocates of efficiency in education increasingly want any future educational spending to be tied to results as evidenced by the 2002 No Child Left Behind legislation
( ) The implicit criticism lies in the notion that the learning es at public education institutions do not correlate well with what industry needs in the newly emerging 21st century workplace. Even when students met the growing technical work force needs of industry, there was, and still is, a high and increased level of dissatisfaction about their work readiness skills, and much of it attributed to a general under-preparedness within the high school curricula (Lynch, 2000; MnSCU, 2003; mission on the High S