According to this article, "Nearly all public schools in the United States (98 percent) offer some form of career and technical education (CTE), and these programs, which were previously called vocational education or voc-ed, aren't new to public schools. But what is new is the extent to which CTE programs have become exploited by big businesses and powerful actors in the marketplace to serve their own needs rather than those of students." The contrast here with well-respected programs such as those in Germany, according to the article, is that "these programs too often give the students only narrow skills that are very likely to have a short term life in the workplace." My observation also is that in Germany you see a much greater involvement by trade unions in the development of these programs.
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