I feel the same way. It is counterintuitive that the country could get more equality by being more class-based in its tracking. But perhaps kids who go to vocational school would benefit from starting out with a solid job and a strong base, and grow from there.
It's worth noting that the US is quite on the extreme end of the general educa…
I feel the same way. It is counterintuitive that the country could get more equality by being more class-based in its tracking. But perhaps kids who go to vocational school would benefit from starting out with a solid job and a strong base, and grow from there.
It's worth noting that the US is quite on the extreme end of the general education scale. I think Americans in particular are sensitive to this because we want to tell kids "you can be anything you want." We don't want to limit them by tracking them early.
One surprising thing I learned from studying for this is that Germany, Austria and other vocation-heavy countries actually had decreasing College wage premiums since the turn of the century. I had assumed the college wage premium increased everywhere.
I feel the same way. It is counterintuitive that the country could get more equality by being more class-based in its tracking. But perhaps kids who go to vocational school would benefit from starting out with a solid job and a strong base, and grow from there.
It's worth noting that the US is quite on the extreme end of the general education scale. I think Americans in particular are sensitive to this because we want to tell kids "you can be anything you want." We don't want to limit them by tracking them early.
One surprising thing I learned from studying for this is that Germany, Austria and other vocation-heavy countries actually had decreasing College wage premiums since the turn of the century. I had assumed the college wage premium increased everywhere.