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Vocational education has a vital role to play in flexing young minds

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Ken Boston -- Vocational education and vocational training are different, and the former benefits all.

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CareerTech officials call for education changes

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Janet Bray, director of the national Association for Career and Technical Education, toured Oklahoma City-area career technology centers last week, touting findings of a recent Harvard study.

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Arne Duncan Urges CTE to Prove its Worth

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged the career and technical education community this morning to upgrade its programs to prove they are "worthy investments" as federal funding for such offerings grows tighter.

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Vo-tech schools should meet education challenge head-on

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Oklahoman Editorial -- There are a couple of different ways to take U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan's speech last week to career and technical education officials. It was a warning shot, a challenge or perhaps a bit of both. Either way, Duncan is right in suggesting vocational programs must prove their worth.

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CareerTech moving Oklahoma forward

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Phil Berkenbile, Oklahoman -- U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan commented recently about a Harvard Graduate School of Education report, “Pathways to Prosperity,” which envisions a new system of career and technical education (CTE, called CareerTech in Oklahoma) that is a radical departure from the vocational education system of the past.

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