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NAPE Welcomes
Upper Bucks County Technical School, Perkasie, PA
as a New Affiliate
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HELP
Staff Releases Discussion Draft of WIA Provisions
Recently, the Senate Committee on Health, Education,
Labor & Pensions released a staff discussion draft of Title I
(Governance and Infrastructure) and Title II (Workforce Investment
and Related Activities) of the proposed Workforce Investment Act
(WIA) reauthorization bill. The National Skills Coalition
performed an initial analysis of these titles and prepared a summary
of key provisions in Title I
and Title II.
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"Gainful
Employment" Rules Leave Many Disappointed Caralee J. Adams, Education Week
Ninety-thousand comments and numerous meetings later, a
yearlong effort to draft new regulations for career-college programs
has resulted in scant satisfaction, from supporters and critics
alike, though the programs clearly gained more time to change their
ways. At the heart of the battle are 14 regulations-including the
most controversial, on gainful employment-aimed at improving the
transparency and quality of career programs. Under the new
regulation, a program can lose access to federal student aid if too
many of its students fail to find "gainful employment" as
defined by three measures linked to loan repayment and income. Learn
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Arguing
Separate but Equal: A Study of Argumentation in Public Single-Sex
Science Classes in the United States Howard M. Glasser (former STEM Equity Pipeline
Consultant), International Journal of Science, Gender and Technology
This study investigated students' grades and the
discursive practice of argumentation in an all-boy and an all-girl
science class taught by the same teacher at a public co-educational
middle school in the United States to explore whether they learned
the same science. Although the classes received similar grades, the
boys gained greater exposure to argumentation, a skill that could
assist them in future science pursuits. The emerging theory is that
single-sex settings can construct differences between the sexes,
possibly aiding the development or maintenance of differences between
boys' and girls' interest and performance in science. This study
highlights the concern that the recent increase in single-sex
offerings in the United States could impact equity goals and
gender-related outcomes. Learn
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Cutting
Job-Training Dollars Would Hurt Recovery Joan Kuriansky, Washington Post
With the nation's unemployment rate at 9 percent, the
economy continues to be a top concern for Americans. Job-training
programs are helping unemployed Americans find work that allows them
to support their families. Over the last year alone, more than 8
million people have benefited from job-training programs - more than
half of them placed in new jobs. That's why it's so puzzling that
some congressional leaders would put the very federal programs that
are helping get people back to work on the cutting block. Read
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Modeling
Gender Equality and Serious Recruiting Increase Nontraditional
Enrollment CTE Trailblazers Magazine
The author describes a CTE program in Virginia that has
been successful in recruiting and retaining unusually large numbers
of young women enroll in technology courses. Half of the programming
students are female, for example, and young women are even signing up
for HVACR and cabinetmaking courses. Read
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Mich.
Early College Builds Pipeline into Health Careers Christina A. Samuels, Education Week
An early-college program in Dearborn, Mich., is part of
a trend to provide alternative tracks for students. At Henry Ford
Early College, students earn a high-school diploma, an associate of
science degree and a certificate in any one of 12 allied health
fields, over the course of five cost-free years. Radiology, biotechnology
and surgery technology are among the areas in which the school is
preparing students for jobs. Read
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