A welding teacher says hands-on career training can win back disengaged students but schools and the state erred by emphasizing college for all and letting trade education die at many California ...

Reno, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — In the Washoe County School District, nearly every high school offers trade and skilled classes such as welding, metalworking and architecture. However, Spanish ...

High school shop classes are back in a big way as students and educators prepare for a future in which AI could take over many of what we today think of as "white-collar" jobs.As the Wall Street ...

BILLERICA — Shawsheen Valley Technical School was awarded a $1 million grant as part of the Healey-Driscoll administration’s $17 million Skills Capital Lab Modernization initiative.

TARPON SPRINGS — Dan Jantac spends most of his summers at his grandfather’s citrus farm in Brazil. He learned the basics of ...

Some high schools have started offering shop classes again, so students can gain in-demand trade skills for well-paying careers. One of those is Father Judge High School, a Catholic high school in ...

He was motivated to apply to West-MEC because it offered 900 hours of welding training compared to the 150 to 200 hours offered by a high school welding shop.

Brent Tuttle has taught welding for 24 years to more than 3,000 students. He says California high schools should offer more classes like his, training students in trades rather than steering them ...