The President’s Call For A New Vocational Training

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/02/14/vocational-training

Jobs and education got a lot of attention in the President’s State of the Union address the other night.  Education, starting pre-K.  Jobs and education planted right in high school.
German-style, said the president.  Schools and corporations working together to put high school grads on a track straight into a job.  And not old-fashioned “vocational education” – wood shop, mechanics, hair dressing.  The call here is for high tech
This hour, On Point:  high schools, educating to a job.  Plus we’ll look at the President’s “College Scorecard,” sizing up your “bang for the buck” in higher ed.

-Tom Ashbrook