AMIDST ALL THE TURMOIL and angst that has turned the world as we know it upside down, we long for signs of normal life, some sort of consistency that can be counted on. Look no further than Boston’s troubled Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, where a global pandemic has done nothing to upset the drumbeat […]
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Vocational school admission policies failed Ryan
RYAN CAME INTO my office in his 7th grade year. I was a guidance counselor in his Fall River middle school. It was actually his second year in 7th grade, as he had to repeat the grade. “I want to go to the vocational school for high school. I’ve worked alongside my uncle in his […]
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Don’t mess with success of voc-tech high schools
OUR ECONOMY IS changing faster than ever before, and no part of the Commonwealth’s system of public education has done a better job of keeping up with those changes than vocational-technical high schools. Expanding them would provide more opportunity for students and give employers the talent they need to keep growing. It hasn’t always been […]
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Voc-tech schools facing scrutiny over admissions policies
AFTER YEARS OF complaints from city officials and urban school superintendents that vocational-technical schools are turning away some of the students who might benefit most from their hands-on learning programs, state education officials are reviewing the selective admission standards used by vocational schools that draw higher-performing students. Education commissioner Jeff Riley is expected to propose […]
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Career and technical high schools are jewels of ed system
A RECENT VISIT to Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School demonstrated why career and technical high schools are rightly considered a Massachusetts success story. But it also serves as a reminder that we must not let them become victims of their success. Greater New Bedford Regional Voc-Tech gets most of its 2,139 students […]