Lewis Chappel roams the halls of Hollywood High School as a dinosaur – an old-fashioned shop teacher in a newfangled education system. “I see my program dying. I see other programs dying,” said ...

Robert Love is planning for the future by taking advantage of courses offered through the vocational education program at Mathews High School. A senior, he is a third year auto mechanics student.

A new study of the schooling and workforce outcomes for 4,414 "early-career" adults (median age 29) found that students earned about 2 percent more each year for each advanced or upper-level ...

Jeff Linko began his career in an auto dealership, as a mechanic for DaimlerChrysler. Life under the hood suited him. He specialized in transmissions, though he could also repair brakes, steering, air ...

In teacher Jennifer Burrell’s sports medicine class at Valley High School in Santa Ana, students are learning how to take vital signs. They can measure blood pressure, respiration and pulse rates.

I think I finally figured it out - the distaste, I mean, that school officials have for vocational education. It was 12 years ago that I first stumbled upon this topic. In chance conversations with ...