Will 8850 Form Vocational 2016-2023

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Education the NewsHour has long been committed to covering that topic and starting tonight we'll be expanding our coverage on Tuesdays with a new feature series called making the grade we'll provide in-depth reporting on education issues at every level from early childhood and preschool all the way through high school and beyond with the world of higher education we'll explore the most fundamental concerns in schools communities and workplaces and we'll also cover plenty of approaches you may not have heard about yet tonight we focus on vocational education there's a growing recognition of its value for some students but how do you determine when it's working for the long haul special correspondent john tulenko of education week has our story this year's some three million students will graduate from high school and most will go on to college it ought to be something to celebrate but in fact nearly 40% of those who go to four-year colleges and some 70% of students at community colleges will never earn their degree it's the shame of our nation when you look at a student comes out of high school not knowing what they want to do goes to college drops out now they're in debt without a job and not knowing what they want to do they're worse off than they were you know as little as a year before and that's all preventable all of it one solution principal Dave wheeler says lies in schools like his southeastern regional Vocational Technical High School south of Boston here in addition to the regular school subjects students learn skill trades and professions and if they choose instead of college they can go directly into the workforce you can become anything you want here if you take advantage of what we have...