For higher education reform, alternative credentials such as vocational certificates have blossomed as a way to provide skills training that leads to a job. However, it’s not clear whether they ...

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Earlier this year, Donald Trump said this to a group of Republican lawmakers: “Today you have community colleges and you have all of the—when I was growing up we had vocational schools . . . You learn ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Susan Mock of Rock Creek, who earned a certificate in Flying HIGH Inc.’s chemical dependency counseling assistant program, hugs Etta Huff, program instructor, during ...

Inmates released from SCI Waymart have a lower recidivism rate than average in PA. The prison recently celebrated those ...

Elizabeth Radday, Learning Support teacher at The Marvelwood School, recently spent six months in Finland, where she studied how their innovative vocational education system works for all students, ...

Tom Slone dreamed of opening a vocational center at Fort Worth’s Hope Farm. Slone, founder of Touchstone Communications, was a proponent of vocational training and wanted to make sure that the boys ...

How much extra a student will earn annually by finishing a vocational degree in a field, compared with a similar student who didn’t finish. Source: NBER Working Paper, Career Technical Education and ...