Pending the approval of schools boards and the availability of funding, the Kansas City School District (with the aid of some industrial partners) will open a new Engineering and Construction Academy as early as 2009.  The $40 million project would address Kansas City’s lack of skilled tradespeople. According to Garry Kemp of the Greater Kansas [...]

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Louisiana musician Benny Grunch has written a fight song for GED seekers everywhere. Some of the lyrics apply to defiant trade-schoolers whose relatives want them to attend university. The lyrics, (courtesy of bennygrunch.com) go like this:
My brudda’ in law went to college n’all. He’s a certified PhD.
He acts like a snob, but he can’t [...]

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According to The 18th annual edition of America’s Health Rankings™: A Call to Action for People & Their Communities, guess which state has the best high school graduation rate? Nebraska. Not Massachusetts, not California, not Washington. And it’s not because there’s nothing else to do in Nebraska other than stay in school. We’re serious; it’s [...]

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