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AchieveTexas is a system designed to help students (and their parents) make wise education choices. It is based on the belief that the curricula of the 21st century should combine rigorous academics with relevant career education. When schools integrate academic and technical education, students can see the “usefulness” of what they are learning. The system also facilitates a seamless transition from secondary to postsecondary opportunities.
The Advanced Technical Credit (ATC) Program allows high school students to receive credit at participating community colleges across Texas for taking certain enhanced technical courses. The ATC Program does this by creating statewide articulated courses - these are special high school courses that can transfer to community colleges.
America's Career Resource Network (ACRN) consists of state and federal organizations that provide information, resources and training on career and education exploration. The network is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, and operates in every state and territory.
Career Clusters identify pathways from secondary school to two- and four-year colleges, graduate school, and the workplace, so students can learn in school and what they can do in the future. This connection to future goals motivates students to work harder and enroll in more rigorous courses.
Tech-Prep is a way to start a college technical major in high school. In a Tech-Prep program, you begin your course of study in high school and continue in a community or technical college. The result is a certificate or associate degree in a career field.
This site has been prepared as a resource for educators and parents by the staff of the Career and Technology Education Unit of the Texas Education Agency. Agency staff will endeavor to keep this link current with the help of Career and Technology Directors from school districts throughout the state and representatives from business and industry.
CTE 'Where your future begins!' is an Internet Hotlist on "Your Final Steps Before Starting Your Career". In addition to using books and magazines to find out about CTE, why not also use the power of the Internet? The links provided will get you started.
The Crime Library is a rapidly growing collection of more than over 600 nonfiction feature stories on major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics and criminal profiling by prominent writers. The stories focus mostly on recent crimes, but an expanding collection also delves into historically notorious characters, dating back to the 1400s and spanning the globe.
The Crime Library is a source of entertainment and education for millions of readers throughout the world, and it serves as an important resource for students researching current and historical subjects and for producers of television documentaries and book authors.
The mission of The Curriculum Center for Family and Consumer Sciences is to produce and disseminate instructional materials that support family and consumer sciences and career orientation programs and to provide related pre-service and in-service professional development to educators and administrators within those program areas.
Duke Law School was established as a graduate and professional school in 1930.
Its mission is to prepare students for responsible and productive lives in the
legal profession. As a community of scholars, the Law School also provides
leadership at the national and international levels in efforts to improve the
law and legal institutions through teaching, research and other forms of public
service.
Instructional Materials Service (IMS) is a service unit of the Department of Agricultural Education at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Services performed by IMS staffers include curriculum and special project development, in cooperation with Career and Technology Education personnel, mainly Agricultural Science and Technology Education and Trade and Industrial Education staff from the Texas Education Agency.
Labor Market and Career Information (LMCI) is a unit of the Texas Workforce Commission within the External Relations Division. Our mission is to improve the way Texans make career and educational decisions by providing useful and reliable information about careers, educational training options and jobs.
The official web site of the James "Nikki" Rowe Chapter of the Future Farmers of America Organization.
The TAKS blueprints establish the length of each test and the number of test items measuring each objective. These blueprints provide consistency from one test administration to the next. They have been developed to ensure that each subject-area/grade-level test includes a variety of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) student expectations eligible for assessment. In addition, each subject-area blueprint reflects an appropriate distribution of the TEKS across objectives for that grade level.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code was enacted to protect against involvement of the criminal element in alcoholic beverage trafficking. The legislature has very strictly prohibited persons who have been convicted of certain crimes from obtaining licenses or permits. Also prohibited are "tied house" violations where ownership overlaps the three marketing levels (manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing) in the beverage alcohol industry.
The mission of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE) is to ensure a Texas where people are served by highly trained and ethical law enforcement and corrections personnel through screening, developing, and monitoring resources and setting standards.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is an agency of this state created to provide public safety services to those people in the state of Texas by enforcing laws, administering regulatory programs, managing records, educating the public, and managing emergencies, both directly and through interaction with other agencies
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The Division of Curriculum oversees the development and implementation of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in public schools. The Division provides information to school administrators, counselors, parents, and students on course offerings and issues related to 19 TAC Chapter 74. In cooperation with the divisions of Textbooks and Student Assessment, the goal of the Division of Curriculum is to provide information and resources to ensure academic success of all students in Texas public schools.
The Career and Technology Education (CTE) Unit, in the Division of Curriculum, provides direction and leadership to the CTE programs throughout Texas. Unit staff assists districts statewide with implementation of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for CTE; collaborates with various professional organizations regarding CTE programs; and assists the Textbook Division in overseeing the textbook adoption process for CTE instructional materials. The CTE Unit also provides on-going communication with the field related to the curriculum and graduation requirements in TAC Chapter 74.
The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS, comprise the state-mandated curriculum that establish what every student, from elementary school through high school, should know and be able to do. They were developed to comply with §28.002(c) and (d) of the Texas Education Code and can be found in the Texas Administrative Code in Chapters 113 and 118.
The general purposes of this code are to establish a system of prohibitions, penalties, and correctional measures to deal with conduct that unjustifiably and inexcusably causes or threatens harm to those individual or public interests for which state protection is appropriate.
The constitution of the United States of America.
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