"Career classes make a comeback".

"Career classes make a comeback". --Dallas Morning News, March 12, 2007 For almost 20 years, school districts have been flirting with aone-size-fits-all dose of liberal arts liberal arts,term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. instruction, but they are vampingup career and technical education (CTE (Coefficient of Thermal Expansion) The difference between the way two materials expand when heat is applied. This is very critical when chips are mounted to printed circuit boards, because the silicon chip expands at a different rate than the plastic board. ) classes. Classes such as woodshop and auto mechanics An auto mechanic or motor mechanic in Australian English is a mechanic who specialises in automobile maintenance, repair, and sometimes modification. A mechanic may be knowledgeable in working on all parts of a variety of car makes or may specialize either in a specific area began disappearing from traditional high schoolsin the 1980s, but they're reappearing at district-run trade schoolsalongside new classes such as advertising design, computer repair,engineering and health sciences. Statewide, CTE enrollment jumped 170 percent from 1996 to2006--three times the rate of enrollment in bilingual courses and ninetimes the overall enrollment growth, according to according toprep.1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.2. In keeping with: according to instructions.3. a state report. Schoolofficials said the concentrated setup helps kids find their niche andunderstand practical uses from core classes--a combination they saylowers dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rates. But the concept is still not widely accepted, as proponents of CTEfight to make over an image of stitch-and-stew blow-off classes. Districts have added classes such as media tech, health sciences,law, finance, engineering, electronics and computer maintenance. Forkids not heading to a four-year college, schools offer credits toward anassociate degree and professional trade certifications that lead tobetter-paying jobs. Three districts in Texas offer stand-alone careerand technology schools, including Denton, Irving and Mansfield. Irvingtailors its core curriculum to students' career focus. "We have fewer students who drop out if they see a purpose towhy they're in school," said Marty Thompson, dean ofDenton's $22 million Advanced Technology Complex, which opened lastfall. "TAKS TAKS Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (statewide student assessment as of Spring 2003)performance is better because it makes sense. They knowhow to apply it." www.dallasnews.com