A common complaint about the higher education system is that it doesn’t always necessarily prepare students for the real, working world. But changes are being made in certain schools to compensate for that challenge.
Integrating school (before college) with more career-based training could be a really helpful head start for students specifically looking to have job in healthcare. This is being shown at Oakland’s Life Academy high school with low-income minority students.
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PBS NewsHour‘s April Brown explored how the school’s program is making a difference, so much so that it has the second highest rate of graduates in the city who end up attending college.
Preparation like this is especially important for students who come from families in which they will be a first generation college attendant.
“We really want students and families to have the opportunity to attend college, and not just, you have qualified for it, but that you could really succeed at it and make it through those four years of college, which are really rigorous and really challenging for students that don’t have — they don’t have any frameworks for understanding what college is going to be like because they are the first,” said the Oakland high school principal, Preston Thomas.
