What better vocational training [which she ... expectations are far more important in influencing social mobility and life chances than the education achieved, or even the bald financial standing ...

Manno writes on education ... ethnic, and social-class overtones, with immigrant, poor, and minority youth often enrolled in low-level academic and vocational training and middle- and upper ...

A crucial determinant of this success is the capacity to equip the workforce with job, ready skills through effective vocational ... and advancing social mobility. This transformation requires ...

If our education system does not currently support equality of opportunity, would investing more simply throw good money after bad? No. Many studies show the gains in social mobility when states ...

Local technical and vocational ... and Secondary Education (BESE) to prohibit selective criteria that discriminates against disadvantaged 8th graders and inhibits their social and economic mobility." ...

Finland and Vietnam are working to further rivet their vocational training cooperation. Keijo Norvanto, Finnish Ambassador to Vietnam, talked with VIR’s Thanh Thu about how such partnerships will help ...

But the hardest nut to crack to promote vocational education is how to enhance its social status. Deeply soaked in the traditional culture of "He who excels in learning can be an official", most ...

First Step Vocational Grants is providing ... Eureka has a 50-plus year history of supporting education, learning, upward career mobility. What Ron has introduced, here and in the Portland and ...