School-to-Career Blog 032607
The views expressed here are Chris' and are not necessarily the same as the Wake County Public School System.
How the governor can advance 'career tech': San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2007.
Highlights from the article
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (said) "I love career tech, love it," ... in his State of the State address.
If the governor's proposals are to move forward in a fruitful way, some basic assumptions about career tech will have to be addressed. Otherwise, we'll keep having the same old debates, pitting the academic curriculum against the vocational, missing the ways that the two might enhance each other and that career and technical education could develop richer intellectual content.
Thus, we tend to think of job-training and workforce development in strictly functional ways, targeting specific skills stripped of broader intellectual goals. And we miss opportunities to enrich the academic curriculum. The best vocational classrooms, where facts and principles are applied to real problems, provide a true test of understanding. Students are motivated, as they bring what they are learning to bear on the world.
Chris' thoughts -
Great article on the importance of creating a new attitute about Career and Technical Education.
Chris writes for the following Blogs:
- Wake County School-to-Career Blog
- Association for Career and Technical Education's (ACTE) New and Related Services Division, School-to-Work/Careers Section (ACTE blog)
- Association for Career and Technical Education's (ACTE) New and Related Services Division, School-to-Work/Careers Section (ACTE blog) (alternate view)
- Wake County Public School System's Morning Announcements (WCPSS blog)
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