Not so long ago, if a woman wanted a career, the socially acceptable choices were limited to a teacher or a nurse. How things change. In recent decades, women have infiltrated nearly every profession on every level. Read the rest of this article by Nan Mooney, Encarta workplace columnist, by clicking this link.
(Erik Eckholm, The New York Times)
Forget the old-fashioned "vocational ed" classes that sent students on a decidedly non-college track. Over the last quarter-century, a new kind of high school program known as a career academy has proliferated, especially in low-income districts, that combines job placement, college preparation and classes beyond the vocational trades, from accounting to health care. Now, a long-term and rigorous evaluation of nine career academies across the country, to be released in Washington on Friday, has found that eight years after graduation, participants had significantly higher employment and earnings than similar students in a control group.
