Sentences with phrase «into vocational tracks»

Especially worrisome: The risk that low - income and minority students, as well as children with disabilities, could be pushed into the vocational tracks.

Not exact matches

Pupils may further be put into classes on the basis of prospective occupation or occupation type, as in the European multiple - track system, in which at a certain age — say, twelve — pupils are separated into «industrial» or «vocational,» «business» or «commercial,» and «academic» or «college preparatory» segments.

Young people will be sorted into vocational and college - bound tracks at age 15.

Not the educators; not the suburban parents who are complaining about the «out - of - control testing regime»; but those students, mainly poor and minority, who are the most vulnerable, many of whom will be «tracked» into less rigorous vocational curriculum pathways in ways that benefit school district graduation rates and ratings and the educator bonuses that follow.

The old system at the previous comprehensive high school funneled many underperforming students into GED programs, vocational classes, and remedial tracks.

The old practice of separating students into academic and vocational tracks has fallen into disfavor.

College - bound students were funneled into academically rigorous, college - preparatory courses, while students not deemed to be college material — either because of low academic achievement or due to racial or economic discrimination — were tracked into vocational education courses designed to prepare them for direct entry into the workforce.

Steinberg and Halsted (National Coalition of Advocates for Students, 1988) reported that immigrant children have often been tracked into English as a Second Language programs, then steered towards vocational courses.

The Licensed Vocational Nurse and Psychiatric Technician are provided career mobility in the nursing program and are eligible to pursue advanced placement into the degree track earning an Associate in Science Degree in Nursing.

Vocational education has a reputation for tracking low - income African - Americans and Latinos into low - wage jobs.