Rural Nebraska districts' middle school CTE offerings are limited by teacher availability, with one CTE teacher often covering both middle grade and high school courses¶
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q1 i? In small rural districts, CTE course options are often limited by teacher availability, and the same CTE teacher frequently teaches both middle grade and high school CTE courses. → Torre Gibney 2024
Evidence¶
Torre Gibney 2024¶
Torre Gibney, T., Fong, P., Lewis, J., Maduli, D., & Castellano, M. (2024). The landscape of middle school career and technical education in Nebraska. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED673552
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Qualitative finding from interviews/focus groups with an Educational Service Unit representative, reported in the rural delivery models subsection. The representative stated that "Teacher availability really drives what's offered". In one rural district a single CTE teacher teaches six different courses across middle and high school.
""Teacher availability really drives what's offered because there is such a limited number of teachers. … There might be agriculture, animal science, or welding that's offered, depending on the qualified teacher available.""
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Related Claims¶
- Eighth grade was the most common grade for Nebraska middle school CTE enrollment (39 percent), followed by 7th (38 percent) and 6th grade (23 percent) — related
- Rural Utah districts had smaller average class sizes and student-to-teacher ratios, but far fewer unique advanced courses per secondary school, than non-rural districts from 2012 to 2017 — related
- Administrators in eight of nine rural SIG schools reported rural-setting factors, chiefly long teacher commutes (six schools) or isolated communities (four), that hampered teacher recruitment or retention — related
- Limited human capital is one of the biggest challenges in rural school turnaround, making SIG staff-replacement requirements often neither possible nor desirable — a broader claim this one bears on
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Rural Nebraska districts' middle school CTE offerings are limited by teacher availability, with one CTE teacher often covering both middle grade and high school courses |
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Rural Nebraska districts' middle school CTE offerings are limited by teacher availability, with one CTE teacher often covering both middle grade and high school courses |
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