Vocational education has a long history of association with differentiated curricula in the American high school. But within the last two decades there has been a movement for curriculum change - a new vocationalism - that has sought to draw the subject closer to the dominant academic mainstream. Th…
Federal and state legislation encourages the development of industry skill standards to improve the link between educators and employers and better define skill and curricular needs. However, some education reformers fear that a strong focus on the needs of business through industry standards will t…
