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The National Defense Education Act, signed in 1958, focused on improving education in science, mathematics, foreign languages, and other critical areas, especially in national defense. In 1963, the Vocational Education Act added support for vocational education schools for work-study programs and research.
Vocational educators have existed since the first vocations existed. One of the main systems of vocational education was through masters and apprentices. As traditional academic institutions started to recognize the need for vocational education, there became a need to accredit potential vocational teachers within the traditional academic system.
The upper secondary vocational education system in Mexico includes over a dozen subsystems (administrative units within the Upper Secondary Education Undersecretariat of the Ministry of Public Education, responsible for vocational programmes) which differ from each other to varying degrees in content, administration, and target group.
Gen Z has a bad reputation for being work-shy.But new research shows that couldn’t be further from the truth—the youth of today just don’t want a desk job.
With the passage of this act, the Smith-Hughs Act—and consequently the Federal Board for Vocational Education—disbanded due to opposing politics and organizational difficulties from within. [5] [6] Despite this, its efforts and accomplishments are still recognized and in effect in modern American vocational education.
Vocational schools in the United States are traditionally two-year colleges which prepare students to enter the workforce after they receive an Associate degree. Students may also use courses as credit transferable to four-year universities. Programs often combine classroom lessons in theory with hands-on applications of the lessons students ...
See also standards based education reform which eliminates different standards for vocational or academic tracks A shoe repairman and his young apprentice. In the United States, education officials and nonprofit organizations who seek to emulate the apprenticeship system in other nations have created school to work education reforms. They seek ...
The for-profit education industry also receives billions of dollars through VA benefits also known as the GI Bill. [53] In the 2010–2011 school year, more than $1 billion went to eight for-profit schools. [94] [95] In the 2012–2013 academic year, 31 percent of GI Bill funds went to for-profit colleges.