Shira Zucker: Vocational Ed
Many students are struggling to see why staying in school matters. That's what the new vocational education tries to do — make school more relevant to real life and real future choices.
But it's not your parent's vocational ed—changing a tire in auto shop or making a cake in home ec …Vocational education has been reborn—now it combines career prep with college prep. Policymakers have embraced it, and charter schools have popped up all over the state to practice it, but can the new vocational education solve some of the Oakland school system’s toughest problems? Reporter Shira Zucker visited Oakland Aviation High School, one of these new charters, to find out.
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