Hands-On Achievement: Massachusetts’s National Model Vocational-Technical Schools

While the U.S. has had mixed educational results in recent decades, Massachusetts has defied national trends to emerge as a leader in educational achievement and innovation. Nowhere is that seen more clearly than in career and technical education. Pioneer Institute’s book, Hands-On Achievement: Massachusetts’s National Model Vocational-Technical Schools,explains how the Bay State has combined its industrial heritage, educational excellence, and wise governance to forge a voc-tech system that is second to none. It offers a blueprint for how communities nationwide can leverage human capital and local and regional strengths to meet the needs and challenges of schools and workplaces in the twenty-first century.