{"id":1820,"date":"2011-08-03T13:21:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cteeducator.wordpress.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2011-08-03T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T13:21:57","slug":"schools-partnering-with-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mr-statucki.com\/?p=1820","title":{"rendered":"Schools Partnering with Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently reading an article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111903635604576476200369585750.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal <\/a>that discussed the opening of P-Tech. The goal of P-Tech is to provide high school students with a six-year education that includes an\u00a0associate&#8217;s\u00a0degree in a computer science field and an opportunity to work for IBM.<\/p>\n<p>This is the route that many CTE high schools need to pursue, especially in IT. The seamless integration between high school, college credit, and a career is something that most high school CTE teachers would love to see. I can&#8217;t count how many times that I have sat in a discussion with other high school teachers and discussed ideas similar to this. In Las Vegas, we are slowly getting discussions going about dual-credit with college, but the colleges are always concerned about their\u00a0accreditation and budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that developing a program similar to P-Tech or an effective dual-credit program takes time, but we are living and teaching in an era that is quickly evolving and time is not on our side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently reading an article from the Wall Street Journal that discussed the opening of P-Tech. The goal of P-Tech is to provide high school students with a six-year education that includes an\u00a0associate&#8217;s\u00a0degree in a computer science field and an opportunity to work for IBM. This is the route that many CTE high schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cte-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-statucki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-statucki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-statucki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-statucki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-statucki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mr-statucki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-statucki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-statucki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-statucki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}