A notice has been posted to the HELP Committee website providing notice that Perkins CTE will be marked up on Wednesday, June 20th.
The Committee notice and eventually, testimony and video can be found at Senate HELP Committee Link
When 11 Cincinnati high school students started a summer program at Woodward Technical High School to learn mechanical engineering from Toyota engineers, they weren’t exactly chomping at the bit.
“At first, you could tell they weren’t really interested,” said Robbie Tackett, one of the five Toyota engineers who spent five days a week for the last six weeks working on technical skills with the students. “But once we got to the hands-on activities, actually connecting the circuits and doing the programming, they became more engaged.”
On July 9, Governance Studies at Brookings hosted a half-day conference focused on the growing partnerships between community colleges and the manufacturing sector. Panels focused on the future of workforce development and the role of community colleges in the training of manufacturing workers. How are community colleges working to prepare the next generation of innovators in the manufacturing space and ready young adults to enter the workforce?
By on July 9, 2015 12:02 PM
If you are a 15-year-old beginning high school, which country would you rather belong to?
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — With its gleaming classrooms, sports teams and even a pep squad, the Apprentice School that serves the enormous Navy shipyard here bears little resemblance to a traditional vocational education program.
And that is exactly the point. While the cheerleaders may double as trainee pipe fitters, electricians and insulators, on weekends they’re no different from college students anywhere as they shout for the Apprentice School Builders on the sidelines.
But instead of accumulating tens of thousands of dollars in student debt, Apprentice School students are paid an annual salary of $54,000 by the final year of the four-year program, and upon graduation are guaranteed a job with Huntington Ingalls Industries, the military contractor that owns Newport News Shipbuilding.
High schools across the country are taking what might seem like a counterintuitive approach to educating some of their most at-risk students.
They’re enrolling them in college before they even graduate from high school.
A new report from the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy suggests that dual-enrollment programs, where students take classes simultaneously in high school and at a local college, have proven especially successful at getting less-affluent and first-generation students into college—and through it.
