Anyone who went to high school before the early 2000s likely heard the noise of saws & drills from a shop room. Or perhaps they took part in it themselves. Either way, shop class was a normal part of ...

The workers' uniforms are smudged with stains earned underneath a car, wrench in hand. Their repair garage teems with an array of inoperable vehicles and twisted metal. One car's wheels have been ...

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 taught ...