NAF In The News
Real Skills for the Real World - JD Hoye of NAF on CNN -- August 17, 2010
Students Take Classroom Training to the Courts -- The Advocate, Louisiana
LAFAYETTE — Fifteen-year-old Daniel Solieau made a basketball goal Thursday afternoon in the park.
“He made that,” said his teacher, Kit Becnel and she wasn’t talking about the basket.
The basketball court and the park it sits in was designed and created virtually by Solieau and a team of his fellow Carencro High Academy of Information Technology students.
The students are part of a project called FiberKids that creates and researches ways to harness fiber optic technology to enhance classroom learning. >
Too narrow, too soon? -- The Economist
America’s misplaced disdain for vocational education
SARAH ZANDER and Ashley Jacobsen are like many teenage girls. Sarah likes soccer. Ashley was captain of her school’s team of cheerleaders this year. They are also earning good money as nursing assistants at a retirement home. Sarah plans to become a registered nurse. Ashley may become a pharmacologist. Their futures look sunny. Yet both are products of what is arguably America’s most sneered-at high-school programme: vocational training. >
Assuring Meaningful School Work: A Career Context - Education News
6.11.10 - Andrew Rothstein, Ph.D. - In almost every career, professionals integrate knowledge from a variety of disciplines on a daily basis. Those who enjoy their work tend to point to aspects of their jobs in which they bring together many of their skills and talents to solve interesting challenges. They get great satisfaction in being part of well-functioning teams. >
Tourism Work Force Development Funding Cut -- Pacific Business News
by Linda Chiem
As a junior at Maui High School, Konrad Talon enrolled in the elective course Academy of Hospitality & Tourism simply to fulfill his graduation requirements.
Now, five years later, he’s a senior at the University of Hawaii School of Travel Industry Management, a summer intern with The Royal Hawaiian hotel, and strives to work his way to manager in what he hopes will be a long-term career in Hawaii’s hotel industry.
It’s a path he never envisioned he would take.
ACIT Students Attend Gala at Waldorf-Astoria in NYC -- Shore News Today
Career Academies Create More Opportunities for NC students -- The Sun News
By the time some Apex High School students landed internships at a Cary, N.C., computer company, they had soaked up resume tips and practiced job interviews. >
Calvert students take financial challenge 141 score in top fifth -- South Maryland Newspapers
By JEFF NEWMAN
Students in Calvert County participated in the National Financial Capability Challenge and 141 of them placed in the top 20 percent.
All high school curricula include subjects designed to prime students for college, such as English, mathematics, history and science. Not as many require courses prepping pupils for an adulthood reality — personal finance. >
