Dive Summary:

• This year, 230 students started the six-year associate's degree program at Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-Tech) in Brooklyn, attending classes developed by IBM, the New York City College of Technology and City University of New York. 
• IBM, which provides students with mentors and hosts school visits to their facilities, studied IBM employees to understand what P-Tech students would need to learn to work well-paying jobs with opportunities for advancement in the information technology industry.
• Education officials in Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina and Tennessee have committed to creating career and technical education (CTE) schools while the Obama administration has asked Congress to dispense funding for them.

From the article:

"... The building and its surroundings in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, may look run-down, but inside 150 Albany Avenue may sit the future of the country’s vocational education: The first 230 pupils of a new style of school that weaves high school and college curriculums into a six-year program tailored for a job in the technology industry.

By 2017, the first wave of students of P-Tech — Pathways in Technology Early College High School — is expected to emerge with associate’s degrees in applied science in computer information systems or electromechanical engineering technology, following a course of studies developed in consultation with I.B.M. ..."