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New UC role: Grow career tech
- 04-28-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Instead of just weeding out career technical courses, Sen. Darrell Steinberg wants University of California educators to plant some career tech seeds and cultivate them. That’s not something that the UC system, with a lingering bias against applied learning, had been comfortable with. But within four or five years – if Steinberg’s goal is reached – UC will have helped create dozens, perhaps hundreds, of courses with career applications, elevating the substance and status of career tech as well as injecting real-world content into classes that most California students take. Steinberg, the Senate president pro tem, is the author of SB 611, which would write into law the mission of a new UC institute charged with overseeing the design of career tech courses satisfying the entrance requirements to UC and the California State University system. (more...)
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