Thirty years ago, high school shop class seemed on track for extinction. As school funding became a matter of standardized test scores in reading and math, the budget tightened for classes that ...

School districts around the U.S. are spending tens of millions of dollars to expand and revamp high-school shop classes for the 21st century.

“A lot of schools have machines from old shop classes. Recover that before it goes to the dump.” That’s what happened at Analy High School in Sebastopol, California.

The dealership decided it was better to train workers who graduated from high-school shop classes. Workers who start at $19 ...

Students Mario Velasquez, 17, left, and Alexi Barillas, 16, work together on attaching the wheels on their mousetrap egg racer car during shop class at George Washington High School in San ...

Why Schools Need to Bring Back Shop Class. 7 minute read. Ideas. ... As with many schools in the United States, the shop program at Analy High School in Sebastopol, California, ...

Shop class is back and kids are signing up for it. In addition to reading, writing and arithmetic, a freshman class at Piscataway Magnet High School in New Jersey is also learning how to build a ...

San Diego officials believe the return of auto shop and other practical vocational classes has helped cut the dropout rate, which now stands at 6%, the lowest of any big-city district in the state.

For countless years, the band saw at San Francisco's Thurgood Marshall High School collected dust, an educational relic left over from a lost era of kids building birdhouses and tie racks in ...

This fall, he’ll be teaching a new four-year aviation careers program at South Allegheny High School to introduce students to these jobs. The program will be a full-period elective class that will ...