[Unedited] Mike Rose with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Vocational Education - What Kind of Education Befits a Democracy?
Vocational education has had a bit of a boon in recent years. But even as we tried take this notion of vocational education more seriously, we we strip out a sense of the cognitive and civic aspect. The students who were clumped into that hand minded group tended to be poor kids,. immigrant kids, kids of color, right? And those who were moved or categorized as being the abstract minded folks. Well, g no big surprise. They tended to be white and and here for generations, and come from more well to do families. So no wonder we ran into this situation where the vocational ended up being, for many kids, a dumping ground.
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