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Vocational Education in the United States: The Early 1990s

Figure 3--Average number of credits earned by public high school graduates in academic and vocational courses, and the percentage of total credits earned in high school that those credits represent: 1982-1992

1. The 14.2 academic credits earned on average by 1982 public high school graduates represented 66 percent of the total credits earned by those graduates.

2. The 4.6 vocational credits earned on average by 1982 public high school graduates represented 21 percent of the total credits earned by those graduates.

SOURCE: The High School and Beyond Sophomore Cohort 1982 High School Transcript Study, the 1987 and 1990 High School Transcript Studies, and the National Education Longitudinal Study, "Second Follow-up and High School Transcript Files," 1992.