The Fear of Tracking in Vocational Training

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Vocational training and some of the jobs that are available, they pay really well. They pay better than college professors rate. But we kind of ientegrate them. Always plummers electrician, or whatever he has, some of hus gays make a lot of money. What's wrong with that? You knownthe answers, nothing's wrong with it. And no, for all those above reasons, i think vocation, more vocational training, would be good for our class inequalities, second, and good for boys in England.

Shermer and Reeves discuss: • comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries • education • work/labor market • family • marriage • Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support • intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men • intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men • What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) • what the political left gets wrong about boys and men • what the political right gets wrong about boys and men • solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL • fatherhood as an independent institution

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Boys and Men Project and holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It(2017) and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.