Increasing Student Achievement: Vocational Education's Contribution

by Phyllis Hudecki

NCRVE is beginning a new project designed to assist states in improving student achievement by strengthening educational practices, assessment and accountability in vocational education.

State level administrators are implementing various policies and practices that impact schools, teachers, students and administrators. While each state has its own context for educational reform with slightly different priorities and issues, all have the same goal: to improve student achievement.

To assist the state administrators in accomplishing this goal, the Center is offering workshops during June with technical assistance followed up during the remainder of the year. These workshops will be based on an assessment of state needs in the broad areas of standards, curriculum, assessment and the use of data for program improvement. Teams are encouraged to bring teams of state-level administrators to the workshops.

There will be a report on the workshops in a future issue of CenterWork. For more information about the state assistance project, you can send email to Mikala Rahn at mrahn@publicworksinc.org or to me at herriage@uclink.berkeley.edu. You can also write to NCRVE, 2030 Addison Street, Suite 500, Berkeley, CA 94720-1674.

Phyllis Hudecki is the associate director of NCRVE.