AFT Article: The Promise of Career and Technical Education

The Promise of Career and Technical Educaiton by Randi Weingarten President, American Federation of Teachers This is a repost, read the complete article here: http://www.aft.org/column/promise-career-and-technical-education On the surface, the latest jobs report from the Department of Labor is good news—an estimated 214,000 jobs were added in October, which translates into 54 months of job growth, the longest streak of uninterrupted private sector job growth in our nation’s history. However, a deeper look at those numbers shows that while more Americans may be finding jobs, wages are standing still. As the Economic Policy Institute reports, earnings for the wealthy few have surged upward while paychecks for the vast majority of Americans have been[...]