Last April, the Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education announced that six students and two educators were recipients of the 2008 Breaking Traditions award for outstanding work in nontraditional career and technical education programs.
The winners were honored with a reception at the Governors Mansion and the students received scholarship offers from Missouri community colleges and Lin State Technical College.
The National Women’s Law Center announces, in partnership with the Association for Career and Technical Education, the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity, and the National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education, the 2008 Programs and Practices That Work recognition project. Programs are chosen based on input from the career and technical education (CTE) community, and information about successful programs will be shared widely.
To learn more and to download the 2008 application, click here.
Shortage of Women in Job Field Means Higher Earnings
This article by Linda Lowen begins: "Mamas, don’t let your daughters grow up to be cowgirls. They’ll earn a whole lot more if you steer them towards pharmacology" and makes the interesting point that there "is a catch-22. Young women need to see models of successful older
females in these roles before they can envision themselves taking their
place; yet enough examples won’t exist if women don’t enter these
fields in greater numbers." Read more here .
by Lisa G. Ryah, Gannett State Buereau, September 21, 2008
The pay gap between male and female full-time workers is closing
nationally, but the same can't be said of New Jersey, where the trend
toward equal pay between genders has reversed course. Read more here.
