For years, vocational education was the school system’s detention room. New attention to academic standards is changing that–but preparing students for work has dropped by the wayside.
States are racing to deliver the benefits of a new federal job-training law to the unemployed. Except New York, that is, where efforts are stuck in the starting gate.
For vendors, Flatbush Avenue is a business school of the streets, where dwindling customers, vigilant cops and cutthroat competition are all in a day’s work.
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