The growing debate over college costs in the US is pushing more students to community colleges, with schools that offer vocational programs seeing a big bump in enrollment. After steep declines in the ...

Now more than ever, Harvard is struggling to recast itself as serving the needs of the broader American population. While ...

For Ty’Relle Stephens, making a beeline from high school to a bachelor’s program didn’t feel like the right choice, even though many people encouraged him to go straight to college. “I didn’t think ...

Understanding the relationship between vocational skills and academic programs offers valuable insights for today’s students. Vocational training adds practical experience to traditional education, ...

High Schools That Work is another popular school improvement initiative that combines a rigorous academic core—at least four years of college-preparatory English and mathematics, three years of ...

The New York City board of education operates a “separate and unequal” system of vocational education that offers girls training inferior to that of boys, the National Women’s Law Center has charged ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Susan Mock of Rock Creek, who earned a certificate in Flying HIGH Inc.’s chemical dependency counseling assistant program, hugs Etta Huff, program instructor, during ...