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    Trump's One Line About Education; A New Study On Sexual Assault On Campus

    The President devoted just 19 words to education in his speech, calling for "great vocational schools." Here's some context on what that might mean, and other education news from the week.
    by Clare Lombardo Feb 03, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Christopher Corr

    Welcome to our weekly education news roundup. This week we thought we'd devote some time to President Trump's State of the Union speech, which had very little education news to round up.

    In fact, that word appeared only twice in the speech, both times in passing reference while he was talking about other topics.

    What the president did have to say came about halfway through the speech, in this one line:

    "Let us open great vocational schools so our future workers can learn a craft and

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