Balancing Career and Technical Education With Academic Coursework: The Consequences for Mathematics Achievement in High School

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 123-138

  Bozick, Robert ^a   Dalton, Benjamin ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

career and technical education; engineering courses; math achievement; technology courses; vocational education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876977475     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: 19351062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0162373712453870     Document Type: Article

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