Secondary vocational schools are public high schools that may offer the same
advantages of any traditional high school — AP classes, the opportunity to participate in sports and other extracurricular activities.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf just signed legislation enabling more students to opt
out of traditional high school exams if they're engaged in CTE activities.
Vocational schools in the United States refer almost exclusively to secondary and postsecondary institutions designed to provide students with a skilled trade, as opposed to the academic - focused
programs of traditional high schools and universities.
Their supporters argue that the schools provide a much - needed safety valve for students who don't work well in conventional settings and prefer to move through courses at their own pace; critics worry about the quality of the online courses and fear they take the onus
off of traditional high schools to meet the needs of all students.
And even though half the early college high schools claimed to have a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) focus, the high school math scores of the early college students were no different than the math
scores of the traditional high school students.
Dual - language programs most commonly exist as
subsets of traditional high schools, where select students take classes in a language other than English, though generally not for a full half of each day.
I have demonstrated the 21st century skills of: Communication, Information Processing, Problem solving, Higher order thinking skills in the five test areas (Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies) to perform effectively in the workplace or in higher education as the top 15 %
of traditional high school graduates.
Just really looking at a very different model that's far more transitional to adulthood than walking
out of a traditional high school and then being expected to go to college or into the workforce or gap years or whatever kids do, and be ready to do that.
Graduates of career - themed high schools that emphasized the connection between school and getting a good job earned 11 percent more per year, on average, than graduates
of traditional high schools eight years after graduating (Stern et al., 2010).