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A New School Keeping the Promise of Career and Technical Education
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Gibbs, Hope J. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2007
When Worcester Massachusetts opened the Worcester Trade School--one of the first vocational high schools in the country--in the early 1900s, it marked an important change in public education. The old Worcester Trade School opened with 50 students, and became overcrowded in just five years. Local industrialists, knowing the value of such training,…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Technical Education, Public Education, Information Technology
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Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2004
Five years ago, Robert E. Lee High School was a big school with big problems. Overcrowding at the 3,100-student school forced some students to use air-conditioning units for chairs. Hallway fights broke out daily. At least half the freshmen disappeared from the roll books before reaching 12th grade. The thing to do, school leaders decided, was to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Instructional Program Divisions