Career ed bill vetoed
California students will not be able to to take career classes instead of art or foreign language to earn a diploma. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill. An advocate of vocational education,...
View ArticleBuild non-degree paths to the middle class
Can the Middle Class Be Saved? asks Don Peck in an interesting (and depressing) Atlantic story. College graduates with a four-year degree are doing better than non-graduates, whose prospects are “flat...
View Article95% grad rate for career-tech students
California’s career academy students are more likely to graduate and complete college-prep courses required by state universities, according to a new Berkeley report on “partnership academies.” These...
View ArticleThe death of vocational ed — and the middle class
The death of vocational education is hastening the demise of the middle class, argues Marc Tucker in Ed Week. Years ago, almost all the larger cities had selective vocational high schools whose...
View ArticleNot your father’s shop class
Career Technical Education (CTE) is Not Your Father’s Shop Class, writes Harry J. Holzer in The Washington Monthly. In “old-fashioned voc ed,” low achievers trained for “low-wage or disappearing jobs,...
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Connected to the future
Senior Gerardo Lopez talks to Education Secretary Arne Duncan at San Francisco’s Burton High School. Most students like Gerardo Lopez — Latinos and blacks from low-income and working-class families —...
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How schools can close marriage gap
Schools can promote marriage and upward mobility by preparing disadvantaged students for college or careers, writes Mike Petrilli. High-quality career and technical education (CTE) is a “solid pathway...
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Career prep starts in middle school
High school student Andrew Castillo, left, and architect Marco Marraccini, met when Andrew was a seventh-grade intern. Photo: Emile Wamsteker, Education Week Career prep programs are starting in...
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Career academies challenge college for all
Most 12th graders aren’t prepared to succeed in college, according to NAEP, but nearly all are told it’s the only path to a decent job. Nearly two-thirds of high school graduates go directly to...
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