Atlanta Forward: Education

Georgia is embracing career and technical education again, believing it will keep students engaged and provide industry with a trained workforce. I discuss the challenges of figuring out whether CTE works due to the absence of universal standards by which to judge programs. A professor writes about how colleges have kept guns out of their football stadiums, so why not their classrooms? Speaking of football, readers discuss whether it should be lights out for “Friday night lights,” debating whether high schools ought to end their football programs in light of the growing body of research on brain injuries.

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