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elleng

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4. 'When it comes to technical education, the United States is an outlier compared with

Reply to Doreen (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 10:47 PM

Aug 2017

other developed nations. Only 6 percent of American high school students were enrolled in a vocational course of study, according to a 2013 Department of Education report. In the United Kingdom, 42 percent were on the vocational track; in Germany, it was 59 percent; in the Netherlands, 67 percent; and in Japan, 25 percent.'

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Seeing Hope for Flagging Economy, West Virginia Revamps Vocational Track. [View all] elleng Aug 2017 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author ymetca Aug 2017 #1

In Germany vocational school part of high school. Doreen Aug 2017 #2

'When it comes to technical education, the United States is an outlier compared with elleng Aug 2017 #4

It is amazing that the U.S is so far behind in just about everything Doreen Aug 2017 #6

Yes it is, and we'll feel the effects for a long time, imo. elleng Aug 2017 #7

There was "Vo-tech" back in my HS days, 1972 and gasp, we even had a welding, woodworking Purveyor Aug 2017 #3

My HS days too, '62. elleng Aug 2017 #5

In my HS we had those also but they were just one of the classes that you took during the day. Doreen Aug 2017 #8