usa education

1. TVE 5005 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THECNICAL AND
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
SITI HASMAH IBRAHIM
GS64790
TVET EDUCATION SYSTEM IN UNITED STATE OF
AMERICA (USA)

2. UNITED STATE OF
AMERICA
LOCATED IN
NORTH AMERICA
LITERACY RATE of
99%
50 STATES
331 MILLION
POPULATION
WASHINTON DC IS NATIONAL CAPITAL
New York City is
most populous&
financial center .
THIRD-LARGEST
COUNTRY

4. POST-SECONDARY( COLLEGE)
Only with a high school diploma students can enroll in
post-secondary education. Post-secondary education starts at the age of
18
Divided into three levels as:-
• UNDERGRADUATE (Age18-22)
• GRADUATE IN PURSUIT OF A MASTER’S DEGREE. (Age 22+)
• GRADUATE IN PURSUIT OF A DOCTORATE’S DEGREE.

5. Vocational education wasn’t designed to prepare
students for college. The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917,
the law that first authorized federal funding for
vocational education in American schools,
explicitly described vocational ed as preparation
for careers not requiring a bachelor’s degree. Kids
from poor families were tracked off into becoming
the worker bees. Others were tracked off to go to
universities.

6. By the late 1990s, vocational education had a major
image problem. Vocational programs had become a
kind of dumping ground for kids who weren’t
succeeding in the traditional academic environment.
That included a lot of students with behavior problems,
and a lot of students with learning disabilities. In many
school districts, vocational education wasn’t much
more than a “second-tier special ed program".

7. States had begun to write academic standards, or goals,
for what students should learn. In 2001, Congress passed
the No Child Left Behind Act. That law required states, in
exchange for federal education funding, to test their
students every year and to insure that all students would
eventually be proficient in math and reading. All students
meant the kids in vocational programs too

8. “The early 2000s was a time of significant change in voc
ed,” says Dave Ferreira, executive director of the
Massachusetts Association of Vocational Administrators.
“What we wanted to do was create a student who was able
to go out” and get a job, he says, but also able to “get
accepted into a four-year college or university.” The idea
was to make sure all students were both “career and
college ready.”