Reconsidering Vocational Technical Education for Black and Latino Youth [microform] / James Jennings
- Bib ID:
- 5547302
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Jennings, James
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED348490
Broken link? let us search Trove , the Wayback Machine , or Google for you.
- Description:
-
- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1992
- 29 p.
- Summary:
-
The leadership of communities of color should reexamine vocational-technical education as a potentially effective channel for training Black and Latino youth. None of the five potential schooling channels--public schools, vocational schools and programs, employment training programs, apprenticeship and union programs, and prisons--has done an adequate job with regard to Black and Latino youth. Four important caveats must be considered: (1) Blacks have had a long history and tradition of participation in vocational education; (2) the Booker T. Washington-W. E. B. DuBois debate regarding how Blacks should be educated is full of myth and misconception; (3) any strategy built exclusively on one of the five schooling channels is doomed to ineffectiveness; and (4) focusing on improving the quality and availability of vocational-technical education is a "supply-side" strategy. Vocational-technical education should be reconsidered because adequate training and schooling are necessary to partake of available economic and job opportunities. In addition, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990 directs more federal funds to school districts and colleges in low income communities. Although studies have shown the continuing problems faced by Blacks and Latinos in vocational-technical education, several surveys and studies conducted at the national level have identified essential factors for the development and implementation of effective, high quality schools and programs. (Contains 37 endnotes.) (YLB)
- Notes:
-
- ERIC Note: Based on a paper presented to the Urban Child Research Center (Cleveland, OH, April 16, 1992). For related documents, see ED 346 325.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
-
- Black Education
- Blacks
- Community Development
- Economic Progress
- Educational Improvement
- Educational Opportunities
- Educational Planning
- Educational Quality
- Employment Opportunities
- Federal Legislation
- Hispanic Americans
- Labor Force Development
- Postsecondary Education
- Secondary Education
- Technical Education
- Vocational Education
- Latinos
- Carl D Perkins Voc and Appl Techn Educ Act 1990
- Other authors/contributors:
- Massachusetts Univ., Boston, MA. William Monroe Trotter Inst
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1992
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- A Decade of Change in Free-Access Higher Education [microform] / Richard I. Ferrin
- Achieving Quality in Education [microform] : Review and Suggested Intervention Strategies for Quality Education. Occasional Paper #12 / Howard E. White, Jr
- Equal Educational Opportunity [microform] : 1. A Statement of the Problem, with Special Reference to Recurrent Education
- Historical Perspectives on the Current Education Reforms [microform] / Diane Ravitch, Ed. and Maris Vinovskis, Ed
- The Global Quest for Educational Opportunity [microform] / Leland L. Medsker