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Go to high school, learn a trade
Lance Cohen uses a cutting wheel to shorten a piece of ductwork as Dulaney High classmates (left to right) Zach Iacoboni and Xavier Engleton watch. Photo: Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun At Baltimore County’s...
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Career-tech becomes college prep, mostly white
Ninth-grader Ivan Szasz pilots a boat during a field trip for marine biology students from the Marine Academy of Science and Technology in Highlands, N.J. Photo: Mark AbramsonEducation Week Rigorous...
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Internships motivate — but scores are low
Student internships “saved” a low-performing Chicago school that serves low-income students, writes Hechinger’s Chris Berdik in The Atlantic. Aurice Blanton, a senior at Chicago Technology Academy,...
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PDK: 1/3 of parents prefer public schools
Fifty-two percent of Americans oppose “allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense” in the 2017 PDK Poll. However, only 54 percent of public-school parents...
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How schools fail special-ed students
Almost all students with disabilities are capable of graduating from high school on time, writes Hechinger’s Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie Mader. Yet only 65 percent earn a diploma in four years,...
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Ohio: No job skills needed to be ‘career ready’
Ohio will put a career readiness seal on the diplomas of graduates who’ve mastered skills such as teamwork and creativity, reports Catherine Gewertz in Education Week. Taking career-tech courses or...
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‘Career-ready’ at 18? It’s a myth
In the 21st century, the “career-ready” 18-year-old high school graduate is a myth, write Anthony P. Carnevale, who directs the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, and...
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Who’s college ready? Let’s find out
States vow to graduate students who are college- and career-ready but have no idea if they’re succeeding, writes Checker Finn. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) should test...
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What should high schools require?
What standards should students meet to graduate from high school? asks a “wonkathon” on Fordham’s Flypaper site. I think high schools should reduce requirements to a bare minimum, perhaps eighth-grade...
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3% say grads are ready for college, careers
? Only 3 percent of Americans think high school graduates are “very well prepared” for college, reports Gallup. Five percent think gradautes are very well prepared for careers. Students need “financial...
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Connecting working-class kids to high-tech futures
Carlos Huerta, an engineering student at Downtown College Prep Alum Rock High, works on wheels for a “drop-and-dash” robot for the Silicon Valley Tech Challenge. Photo: Joanne Jacobs Silicon Valley...
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Middle school to manufacturing
Destini Williams and Amrose Bhujel test vehicles they’ve made from trash at Woodward Park Middle School in Columbus, Ohio. Photo: Maddie McGarvey/Education Week Middle-schoolers in Ohio are learning...
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Linking education, careers
Merging Education and Labor into a Department of Education and the Workforce, proposed as part of a government overhaul, could encourage a smarter approach to preparing young people for adulthood,...
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Don’t tie diploma to college-prep coursework
Requiring college-prep coursework to earn a diploma is a mistake, writes Russell Rumberger on EdSource. An emeritus University of California at Santa Barbara education professor, he is director of the...
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Why high schools can’t raise standards
Forty to 50 percent of high school graduates aren’t prepared to pass a community college class, writes Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy. If high schools raise...
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Ready or not
States are trying to measure college and career readiness, writes Alyson Klein in Education Week. There’s no consensus on how to do it. Photo: Andre Hunter/Unsplash “States had to choose at least one...
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Ohio: No job skills needed to be ‘career ready’
Ohio will put a career readiness seal on the diplomas of graduates who’ve mastered skills such as teamwork and creativity, reports Catherine Gewertz in Education Week. Taking career-tech courses or...
View ArticleNot ready for college? Get a J-O-B — and be proud
Glenn Mason celebrates former students who are working and urges educators to “take equal pride in our young men and young women who either defer college, or simply aren’t college-bound.” . . . on a...
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Common Core results are disappointing
Seven years after most states adopted Common Core standards, “the standards appear to have led to modest declines in fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math scores, reports Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat....
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College doesn’t guarantee competence
Photo: Mauricio Mascaro/Pexels People with college degrees aren’t better than everyone else, writes Charles Cooke on National Review. We push students to get “paper degrees” and look down on people...
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