Deep Research + Data · September 13, 2026
From a national directory to a usable pathway
81 partnership/program records · 58 institutions and systems · all 50 states. A curated baseline for the National CTE website.
The website's next layer is local implementation
Recommendation: connect each state policy brief to named institutions and their school partners. A visitor should be able to move from a state's policy context to a real program, inspect the evidence and identify the next person or document needed. This makes the website useful for partnership development and pathway planning. The research establishes examples of relationships; it does not establish purchasing intent, budgets, adoption of Pearson products or expected revenue.
A college name is only the starting point
The sample includes universities, community colleges, technical colleges and a community-college system. Some sources name a district, others a particular school or regional center. Preserve that distinction. Dallas ISD, for example, identifies Dallas College as its primary dual-credit partner and McMurry as a limited pilot partner, while assigning separate four-year P-TECH roles to other universities. Those roles should not be counted as interchangeable credit-issuing relationships.
Dallas ISD — College Partners and Calendar ↗Delivery and credit are separate questions
Bakersfield College uses dual enrollment for district-organized courses and concurrent enrollment for college-campus or online courses, with different treatment of materials and fees. Bismarck State separately describes Early Entry as college credit only. Therefore a national directory must record each source's local terminology and the actual credit outcome. A school's online identity also does not establish that its college partner's laboratory, clinical or technical courses are fully online.
Bakersfield College — Early College ↗Bismarck State — College Credit in High School ↗CTE pathways need course-level evidence
The clearest CTE examples go beyond a general college partnership. Enoree names a particular college course inside its mechatronics sequence. Wake Tech names district schools and technical pathways. New River's Braxton agreement includes Practical Nursing, with completion after high-school graduation. These examples support a pathway view that distinguishes introductory preparation, college credit, practical experience and the final credential. They do not establish that all four outcomes come from one course.
Enoree Career Center — Mechatronics ↗Wake Tech — Cooperative Innovative High Schools ↗New River — Braxton County partnership ↗The funding date can change the decision
MCPS posts a funding change effective July 1, 2026, making College and Career Readiness status material to funded dual enrollment. Dallas College's agreement directory contains many documents labeled 2025–26. A page being available today does not prove that every agreement or price is current. Show the research date separately from the agreement term and the source's publication date; flag unresolved continuation explicitly.
MCPS — Dual Enrollment ↗Dallas College — Agreements and MOUs ↗Use the sample to select investigations, not rank states
Analytical conclusion: the directory supports discovery and comparison, but not a market-size estimate. More examples in one state reflect this review's source availability and selections, not a higher share of students served or a better commercial opportunity. Keep the site's existing three priority tiers separate. A commercial opportunity becomes assessable only after confirming a specific need, an accountable buyer, usable funding, a purchasing route and implementation capacity.