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Largest grant in BPS history will double size of health-oriented high school and open career path for graduates at Mass General Brigham
By adamg on Wed, 01/17/2024 - 12:21pm
A foundation started by the former mayor of New York today announced a $37.8 million grant to double the size of the Edward M. Kennedy Academy of Health Careers and create a new series of college-level classes and internships aimed at getting graduates careers in the Mass General Brigham system.
The grant, by Bloomberg Philanthropies, is the largest in BPS history. According to an announcement by BPS and Mayor Wu:
The collaboration with Mass General Brigham, the state’s largest private employer, will allow EMK to double in size to 800 students, add new health career pathways in surgery, medical imaging, and biotech/medical lab science to complement existing pathways in nursing and emergency services, and offer work-based learning, summer and after-school placements, and career counseling to every student. Graduates will have the opportunity to pursue higher education or graduate straight into a well-paying career within the Mass General Brigham system.
The Boston money comes from an overall $250-million effort by Bloomberg Philanthropies to strengthen education in ten US cities, including New York and Philadelphia.
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Any boomers (and older)
who went to any Boston Public School back in the 60s remember the green pencils that had Boston Public Schools stamped on them?
Better days...
Eh
My daughter still has a Thomas Payzant ruler.
Gen Z
My Gen Z kids got those pencils, too, so the gimmick may not have completely died out.
This
is great. We have to face it that most people cannot tolerate the typical education in the humanities and sciences, and that without paying jobs, they will eat us all. This needs to be a new trend. It won't be perfect, but perfect is not reality. also, high schools used to have vocational options. Likely, the taking away of vocational options was part of the seeds of the fascism we see now. And just because I don't like that, doesn't mean I get to be blind to it. And the same goes for you. Likey or no likey.
Incoherent
Complaining about fascism while dismissing humanities… make it make sense. The fascist right and the neoliberal university have launched an all out assault on the humanities. Education only as an instrument for a job, and not ever about questions of humanity, also has clear authoritarian undertones.
Your belief is false
and is in fact a neoliberal canard. I favor strong humanities, but the public can't learn. they have proven that and without jobs they will get more and more negative. you are a pearl clutching dweeb. BUT I wish your positivist version were real. however, it is not at all real.
Population cohorts
Current numbers, including estimates of population size for cohorts since the Baby Boom generation:
Net population increases from 2020 to 2024: .31%, .385, .5% and .53%.
Without causing undue brain crunching I think it is safe to say that the population is growing and barring something worse than Covid, AIDS or any of the other epidemics and pandemics we have experience the size will just continue to grow. That is assuming that there is not a WW3, that climate change does not cause mass starvation and destruction either.
Modern wars are proxy wars. For now at least the beyond comprehendible devastation of WW2 remains current. Although Putin has shown a willingness to forget that history. And while N. Korea is run by lunatics with nuclear power I doubt if the nation would survive a total destruction if they launch a nuclear attack.
So barring these scenarios and course assuming that the Rapture and all its fun and games are as real as it has been for the past nearly 2,000 years (i.e. wishful thinking and nightmarish myths for children) the population will continue to grow.
Meaning that the medical provider industry needs to grow. One major problem however. Producing doctors and nurses has become a Darwinian race of the fittest.
Fittest means those with enough money, those willing to be masochist to an educational industry designed to tear apart individuals in order to recreate them in the image of older white coats. In other words, in an industry of medical professionals that is designed to graduate people who walk into doctoring and nursing with graduate school imposed PTSD While WW3 is unlikely (I imagine N. Korea would be destroyed by most other nations if they launched a nuclear attack
It is no wonder that an education industry that eats up prospective doctors and nurses is producing people who don't want to be doctors and nurses in the medical practice areas that continue to generate inhuman stress which contribute to post grad school PTSD. Inhuman stresses arising from a plague of rules and regulations maintained not just by governments (which try to support health) but also rules and regulations by a plethora, even plague of insurers and payment methods and billing procedures that ultimately leave the average person - the client and patient - as widgets and cogs which are used, pushed around, poked and prodded, shunted here and there, objects of industrial application of a complexity of medical industry that would give Occam a life threatening fever, make him throw up and ultimately just quit being alive.
Where can I send the get well
Where can I send the get well card?
If only Elon could accelerate...
The transport of the Rapturists (Michelle Bachman gets a first class ticket) to Mars so they can once again create their new Utopia/Dystopia
Huh
Huh?
This is a great idea
There are a lot of high school students who will be well served by this. Doubling the size of the school might even accommodate its wait list, which runs around 400 students right now.
Back in the day, "Vo-Tech" was disparaged as a lesser path. Those days are over. There are too many kids graduating with meaningless degrees and piles of debt. A lot of smart kids, and kids whose families have immediate needs, will skip the keg parties and take the shortcut.
This is a concrete step towards providing Boston with the education system it needs and deserves.