Word: traded
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Teachers, students, and parents all agree that the city's vocational schools are hopelessly inadequate. Boston Trade School for Boys is the dumping ground for the city. Its machinery is run-down; its faculty is way too small. Since many students are just marking time in classes, incentives are low, and dropouts are high. Boston Trade Schol for Girls is straight out of a Charles Dickens novel. It occupies what was once a gracious mansion which has now become incredibly dilapidated. Cooperative work-study programs like the one in Dorchester High School offer courses only in upholstery, cabinet-making...
...Boston's Vocational Schools. Roche bases his plan on the desirability of the conventional neighborhood school for all students, which in Boston means segregation schools. He would like vocational students to attend neighborhood high schools for academic courses, and on alternate weeks and in their senior year study a trade at a metropolitan vocational center. Students in general and college preparatory courses would be allowed to take electives at the center...
Third, students have far greater incentives to learn with a definite job in sight. They could learn a trade on the job in six months instead of four years in school...
...Finally trade unions would have to change their membership criteria in order to allow for expanded apprentice programs. Parts of the 1964 Civil Rights Act if enforced provide for equal opportunities to join unions...
Glassmakers of ancient Venice maintained world superiority quite simply: craftsmen caught spiriting trade secrets out of Venice were made galley slaves or killed by hired assassins. In the modern world of sheet glass, Britain's Pilkington Brothers, Ltd., maintains a comparable superiority in a more humane way: the company consistently outdoes rivals in research and development...