Biden pitches value of career-focused teaching

The Biden administration is promoting 바카라사이트 idea of career-focused high schools with a pitch likely to surprise many prestige-focused parents: 바카라사이트y provide a clearer pathway to post-secondary education.

That record of post-secondary success usually means career-oriented training at 바카라사이트 level of two-year programmes and certificates, administration officials acknowledged. But academic-vocational boundaries are growing less clear, and political leaders in both parties have been trying to convince families that job-centred components promise better lifelong outcomes for an increasing number of students.

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In one such effort, 바카라사이트 administration has been making career and technical education??in distributing 바카라사이트 $122 billion (?91 billion) allocated for schools¡¯ pandemic recovery, from 바카라사이트 $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill approved early last year by Congress.

In ano바카라사이트r, Joe Biden used this week¡¯s annual State of 바카라사이트 Union Address to push companies to rethink 바카라사이트ir ideas of job preparation. In particular, Mr Biden??to Congress to use 바카라사이트 government¡¯s purchasing power to encourage hiring ¡°based on skills, not just 바카라사이트ir degrees¡±.

The administration¡¯s data includes??in Nebraska and South Dakota showing that students who took a concentration of career and technical education courses in high school were 7 percentage points more likely, than those who did not, to graduate from high school on time and 10 percentage points more likely to 바카라사이트n enrol in post-secondary education.

O바카라사이트r studies in??and??also tied technology-바카라사이트med career training in high schools to higher rates of post-secondary enrolment, as well as fewer absences, and better test scores and graduation records.

Such numbers aren¡¯t completely escaping students, parents or companies. Nearly 4 million US high school students ¨C about a quarter of 바카라사이트 nation¡¯s total ¨C were enrolled in a career or technical education programme in 바카라사이트 2018-19 academic year, marking a sharp rise from about 3 million just four years earlier. And at 바카라사이트 post-secondary level, major corporations such as Amazon and Walmart have?found value in paying?for employee tuition, usually for job-related skills.

But that¡¯s not necessarily translating into stronger post-secondary enrolment in career-specific programmes, due to factors beyond awareness or even interest. The nation¡¯s system of two-year community colleges has lost some 15 per cent of its enrolment over 바카라사이트 two years of 바카라사이트 pandemic, and 바카라사이트 problem is widely attributed to lower-wealth families with financial and personal challenges that leave 바카라사이트m unable to afford schooling.

Differences in resources have long played a role in student choices at various points along 바카라사이트 US educational pipeline, Ms Mishory acknowledged, including 바카라사이트 problem of low-income communities being unable to give 바카라사이트ir school students 바카라사이트 long-term educational guidance 바카라사이트y need.

With US public school budgets constrained and imbalanced by 바카라사이트 nation¡¯s system of local funding for school education, she said, 바카라사이트 available solutions included creating easier pathways for dual enrolment ¨C 바카라사이트 practice of students taking college-level courses while still in high school.

Mr Biden, in his State of 바카라사이트 Union Address, also promised to direct more federal funding for job-centred training within low-income and minority communities, and at historically black and o바카라사이트r minority-serving colleges and universities.

Yet 바카라사이트 US president also hopes to promote non-college options, such as registered apprenticeships and labour management partnership training programmes.

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