Vocational Education and the Voices of Workers: Blast from the Past #2 | AMPS

Vocational Education and the Voices of Workers: Blast from the Past #2 | AMPS:

Vocational Education and the Voices of Workers: Blast from the Past #2

by Thomas J. Mertz

Rocky Mountain News, 15 October, 1896.

The Clash – “Career Opportunities” (click to listen or download).

This is the second in a new series on AMPS: Blasts from the Past.  The series is devoted to historical materials that comment on or illuminate contemporary issues in education.  Today’s is about education, work and vocational education.  There is so much going on in this area, especially here in Wisconsin, that I am sure there will be future posts, Blasts from the Past, and others.   Today I just want to look at the how the voices of workers (and to a lesser extent teachers and students) were present and are now absent in discussion and governance of