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Youth apprenticeship has been successfully piloted in a number of states including, Washington, Wisconsin, Colorado, Oregon, North Carolina and South Carolina. In these states, thousands of high school students engage in both classroom technical training and paid structured on-the-job training across a number of high-growth, high-demand industries.
After World War II, Registered Apprenticeship began to expand into training of health and safety workers, including firefighters, police, and emergency medical technicians. Recently, the program guidelines were revised in late 2008 to allow for greater flexibility in serving apprentices and program sponsors in prevailing economic conditions. [ 1 ]
The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act was first authorized by the federal government in 1984 and reauthorized in 1990 (Perkins II), 1998 (Perkins III), 2006 (Perkins IV), and 2018 (Perkins V).
The Vocational Education Act was renamed the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act in 1984. Amendments in 1990 created the Tech-Prep Program, designed to coordinate educational activities into a coherent sequence of courses. The Act was renamed the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006.
Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China A vocational school, (alternatively known as a trade school, or technical school) is a type of educational institution, which, depending on the country, may refer to either secondary or post-secondary education [1] designed to provide vocational education or technical ...
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A shoemaker and his apprentice c. 1914 Electricians are often trained through apprenticeships.. Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).
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