Excellent article on the importance of reall vocational education

Very often conversations about vocational education get torpedoed early on by the history in some communities of vocational education being for low-income and/or minority kids. If it's been seen as a "second choice" for kids who have (or should have) other options, then it's difficult to have a real conversation about education that ends in a job at 12th grade for kids who wish or need that option.
The Nation does a solid job of tackling the need for actual vocational education while dealing well with this history. Give it a read. This definitely has implications for what we are and are not doing in Worcester.