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At the beginning of the twentieth century, American reformers saw
vocational education as a promising way to cure many of the
nation's economic and social ills. But the ensuing educational
reforms had disappointingly little effect on the problems they were
supposed to solve. Today we are still distressed by the extent of
unemployment among young people, especially blacks and other
minorities, and our doubts about the effectiveness of schools in
preparing young people for work have never been greater. Did
vocational education go wrong? Or were the problems so deep-rooted
that the schools could not solve them? These are the questions
these nine essays address. They consider such topics as the
changing economic and political context of vocational education,
the role of federal legislation, the various ideas of early
vocationalists, the growth of the idea of school as the primary
route to employment, the theoretical relationship between schooling
and work, the special problems of vocational education for blacks
and women, and the directions that future research must take.
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