Sentences with phrase «vocational track»

Instead of the state sorting students into vocational tracks, it opened the system up and allowed students to make their own choices.

The government at the time restructured the system — the existing eight - year primary school followed by early vocational tracking was replaced by six years of primary education and three years of lower general secondary education.

This is not a new debate arena; it has been active since at least the days of John Dewey, who believed that a dual college / vocational track system would institutionalize the inequalities of the society in his day.

Such a program should start in high school and offer students a choice of a college track or a vocational track, much like the German system.

On average across OECD countries, a socio - economically disadvantaged girl who lives in a single - parent family in a rural area, has an immigrant background, speaks a different language at home from the language of instruction, had not attended pre-primary school, had repeated a grade, and is enrolled in a vocational track has a 83 per cent probability of being a low performer.

In contrast, only repeating a grade or enrolment in a vocational track have greater penalties for advantaged students.

Their work was buttressed by the development of mass IQ testing, which gave anxious school administrators a «scientific» means to assign children to the vocational track.

Historically, as we have seen, school leaders «solved» this problem by assigning supposedly less able students to the general or vocational tracks and watering down the courses they took.

In Poland, the recent rapid rise in achievement seems to be related to a massive national reform; the introduction of a national common core, combined with a delay in dividing students between the academic and vocational tracks; the creation of 4,000 new middle schools; and the reeducation of many teachers.

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

We don't test out students when they are 14, 15, 16 and set some of them on a vocational track that will never allow them to access a college education.

This type of differentiation might trigger the type of education reform that allows all students to truly find success in the training of their vocational track.

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

Our students pursuing the vocational track are eligible for professional credentials as either a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) or a Licensed Rehabilitation Counselor (LRC) in Massachusetts (on equivalent licensure in another state).