Culture is shared experiences that people hold as common.  Language is far less cultural than many other things.  England and Australia and US are all english, yet the cultures and word differ greatly.  While language can be shared, I'm far less supportive of this narrative being pushed.

I appreciated the Technical, Academic, and 21st century skill distinctions.

21st century feels more like skills or traits that an employer might want to see.  
Academic skills being base knowledge like Reading, Writing, Arithmetics.  Kind of like the concept of trivium.  Grammar, Logic (Dialectics), and Rhetoric.  
Technical skills being topics specific to the career and work.

I often group concepts and understanding, modeling, and doing as 3 different sorts of skills because the assessments look drastically different.  Each really merit there own learning objectives that are different from one another.  Modeling is all math.  Doing is all showing and have… >>>

CTE has a very different history than what I read here.  Around 1920 it was called vocational education (trades) and didn't get called CTE until the 1980s with the emergence of PCs at a residential level.  At that point the concept of technology was introduced because people needed to start understanding electronics and the trades had to accept a rebranding of terminology.

Much of the legislative narrative about skill based learning and career focus was interesting.