This certificate by the state recognizes vocational and technical education students who have achieved a score of Advanced on the end-of-program assessment.
What is the Pennsylvania Skills Certificate?
This university is recognized as the first HBCU.
What is Cheney University?
PSSA Reading, PSSA Math and Non-Traditional Participation are examples of what?
What are Perkins Indicators?
This act enacted in 1984 had two interrelated goals – improve skills and prepare adults for jobs and provide equal opportunities for adults in vocational education.
What is the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984?
Of the first 10 presidents, the only two to have a SDP school named after them.
Who are George Washington and Andrew Jackson?
A numerical coding of instructional programs developed by the U.S. Department of Education used to identify vocational programs.
What are CIP Codes?
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines this as “education beyond the secondary level, especially, education provided by a college or university.”
What is higher education?
Under PA Code, only these students shall be included in the calculation of vocational average daily membership.
What are concentrators?
The first land-grant college provision enacted by Congress in 1862 that articulated the appointment of 30,000 acres of public lands to the states based on their representation in Congress in 1860. Penn State and Rutgers are examples.
What is the Morrill Act of 1862?
This former First Lady is the only one with a school named after her.
This type of program allows students to learn first-hand about the world of work while still in school.
What is Work-Based Learning?
The need for this literate occupation-type spurred the founding of the colonial colleges prior to 1770?
What is a college-trained clergy?
This group shall include representatives authorized by the workforce investment board, civic organizations and higher education institutions.
What is an OAC?
The purpose of land-grant colleges was, including “other scientific and classical studies and including military,” to teach what two major areas?
What are agriculture and mechanical arts?
Born is 1843, he started as a bricklayer apprentice and eventually became president of the Master Builders Exchange of Philadelphia and founder of the Camden Pottery Company in 1901. As a member of the Board of Ed, he pushed for the opening of mechanical trade schools and is considered the "father" of vocational education in Philadelphia.
Who is Murrell Dobbins?
Widely considered the first formalized vocational-type education system in America during colonial times.
What are Apprenticeship Agreements?
The first co-educational college founded in the United States in 1833.
What was Oberlin College?
This should include instruction for the development of human relations skills; knowledge of occupations; leadership competencies and positive attitudes towards fulfilling occupational, civic, social and community responsibilities.
What are CTSOs?
The first federal act for vocational education that established vocational education, particularly agricultural education in separated vocational schools.
What is the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917?
Born in 1872, and after graduating from Wharton, he worked at Gimbels, ventured into real estate, invested in the motion picture industry and became president of Stanley Company of America. His personal Rodin collection was a gift to his home city.
Who was Jules Ephriem Mastbaum?
A planned process of curriculum development and instructional strategies which link educational agencies with other educational agencies or with industries.
What is Articulation?
Between these two wars, enrollment in colleges increased from 250,000 to 1.3 million students.
What is World War I and World War II?
Purchasing furniture, student remediation in CTE programs, administrative salaries, wages paid to students, and costs of promotional items and advertising are examples of this.
What is ineligible use of Perkins funds?
This act funded the construction of area vocational schools, broadened the definition of vocational education to include occupational programs in comprehensive high schools, and called for the improvement of vocational education programs and the provision of programs and services for disadvantaged and disabled students.
What is the Vocational Education Act of 1963?
Originally built in 1907 as a manual training school for boys, the District opened it merely as a 3-year training facility for Jewish and Italian immigrant children, and children who lacked intellectual skills who "could only work with their hands". The founder of Brandeis University was a former graduate.
What is South Philadelphia High School?