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Findings: Secondary/High School
White and Black graduates earned more CTE credits than their Asian/Pacific Islander peers
| Average number of credits public high school graduates earned in career and technical education (CTE), by student sex, race/ethnicity, and whether English was first language: 2013 |
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1 Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, and Asian/Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin.
NOTE: Public high school graduates are defined as students who graduated from a public high school with an honors or standard diploma by August 31 of their scheduled graduation year (2013). CTE credits are credits in these 10 subject areas: agriculture and natural resources; business, finance, and marketing; communications and communication technologies; computer and information sciences; construction; consumer services; engineering, design, and production; healthcare; mechanical repair and operation; and public services. Estimates and standard errors are available at https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/tables/h196.asp and https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/tables/h197.asp.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), Base-Year, 2013 Update, and High School Transcript File.
