It sounds a bit like a joke, but there’s a real answer: the Smith-Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917.

This article is one of the winning submissions from the New York Post Scholars Contest, presented by Command Education. NYC high schools are failing their students—not academically, but practically.

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