Tech credentials pay for low-income students
Vocational certificates and associate degrees in health, transportation, construction, manufacturing and security lead to relatively high pay for disadvantaged students and low-scoring high-schoolers,...
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Education for upward mobility
I’m in Washington D.C. for Fordham’s Education for Upward Mobility conference, which will look at what schools can do to help children born into poverty move up in the world. Mike Petrilli, the...
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Literature, non-fiction, lady or tiger?
Under the Common Core, students are supposed spend half their reading time on non-fiction in elementary school, 70 percent in high school. English teachers aren’t happy about the shift from literature....
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Kids don’t want to grow up
Most of Michael Godsey’s high school students don’t want to prepare for college or careers, he writes in The Atlantic. Adolescence is fun. Adult life holds little appeal. After years of teaching AP...
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38% are college ready, but 66% enroll
Thirty-eight to 39 percent of 12th graders are prepared for college reading and math, according to NAEP, yet 66 percent will enroll in college. We’re motivating more young people to enroll in college...
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High school vs. lobstering
Boys start lobstering in their early teens on Deer Isle, Maine. They can be millionaires by age 30. So how do you keep them in high school? asks Sarah Butrymowicz. A marine studies program is showing...
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What does a high school grad need to succeed?
Many years — perhaps 25 — ago, I was asked my advice on a school district’s new graduation requirements. I said, “Go to your local community college and to employers who hire high school graduates. Ask...
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61% of grads aren’t ready for anything
Most high school graduates aren’t prepared for college or a career, concludes Meandering Toward Graduation, a new Education Trust report by Brooke Haycock and Marni Bromberg. Forty-seven percent of...
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Black, brown boys need change — not grit
Schools are pushing “soft skills” such as “grit,” compassion and a “growth mindset” to prepare students for college and careers. Black and Brown Boys Don’t Need to Learn Grit; They Need Schools to Stop...
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Students need skills that lead to middle-class jobs
Seventy percent of young Americans will not earn a bachelor’s degree, write Michael Bloomberg, former New York City mayor, and Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, in Bloomberg View. Most community...
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Get practical: ‘A BA in every pot’ is a fantasy
Credit: Christopher Corr, Getty Images/Ikon Images Vocational education, now known as “career tech ed (CTE),” is back in vogue, says Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown’s Center on Education and...
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Gatsby meets Dale Carnegie
At the Business & Tourism Academy in Los Angeles, 10th graders read To Kill a Mockingbird — and Dale Carnegie, writes Gail Robinson on the Educated Reporter blog. Eleventh graders read The Great...
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From high school to the workforce
Politicians promise to make college affordable for more people, writes Jeffrey Selingo in the Wall Street Journal. Yet many won’t earn a degree and nearly half of graduates are working jobs that don’t...
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New ways to do high school
At Omaha’s Bryan High, students may plant potatoes, care for chickens, tour Union Pacific headquarters or sort and ship books at a school-based distribution center, reports Education Week. “Students...
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How to succeed without a degree
High school graduates with “high credentials” — but no college — earn almost as much as four-year college graduates at the age of 26, concludes a Center for Public Education report. High-credentialed...
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Kentucky gets real about career readiness
Kentucky has gotten real about career readiness, writes Hechinger’s Emmanuel Felton. High schools get the same reward for preparing graduates for “middle-skill” jobs as they do for preparing them for...
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Job training doesn’t require college skills
Students don’t need college-level academic skills to learn marketable job skills, write Northwestern researchers James Rosenbaum and Caitlin Ahearn. Occupational certificates require 8th to 10th...
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Fudging grad rates via ‘credit recovery’
Owensmouth High students received their diplomas on June 8. Photo: Los Angeles Times Only 54 percent of Los Angeles Unified seniors were on track to graduate in December, due to new (absurd)...
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83% graduate — but are they educated?
The U.S. high school graduation rate has hit 83 percent, rising to a new high for the fifth year in a row. “We’ve made real progress,” said President Barack Obama at Benjamin Banneker Academic High...
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STEM apprenticeships should be the future
Apprenticeships aren’t just for future construction workers, writes New America’s Nneka Jenkins Thompson on Ed Central. It’s a form of paid experiential learning that can help prepare students for...
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