[Vision2020] comparing school to work programs

[lfalen]

These reports seem skewed. They seem to gear everything toward all kids going to collage. Not every one should go to college. Vocational schools are left out of these reports. If you want to look at it from a purely economic prospective; Skilled craftsmen can make just as much money at a lot of people with college degrees.

Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Bill London" london at moscow.com
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:51:57 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] comparing school to work programs

> Here is a followup to the ongoing discussion in this community about school to work programs.
> 
> Education Week magazine does some great comparisons in how the different state's educational systems are doing...
> The most recent (last week) is at:
> http://www.edweek.org//ew/articles/2007/01/04/17execsum.h26.html?print=1
> 
> This comparison is based upon the goal of providing a "seamless educational system" that helps kids move easily and effectively from school to college to career...
> 
> Anyway, Idaho is 35th of all states, WA is 22, in meeting this goal.
> 
> We are not doing very well.
> 
> For those who really want to study the data, what is very good about this Education Week report is that by opening the report Table of Contents on-line and selecting state reports,  you can see how those rankings were made.
> BL
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