1.   At least nine states now tie their funding for vocational education to job placement rates.

2.   Effective school-to-work systems are not just a new and improved version of vocational education.

3.   In many places, it has been relegated to a reform of vocational education.

4.   It usually consists of part-time jobs offered as one component of vocational education in high schools.

5.   So we need to preserve that part of vocational education but greatly diminish narrow training for specific jobs.

6.   These quite explicitly linked vocational education with the low status black people were expected to occupy in the social hierarchy.

7.   We offer vocational education and job training.

8.   In particular, schools need a better working knowledge of the link between their own level of general education and the requirements of vocational education and training.

9.   It helps managers when teachers know, for example, that ministers in one government department blame those of another for shifts in a national scheme of vocational education.