Educating Kids for Jobs for the 21st Century

Ohanian, Susan

http://newdemocracyworld.org/old/Susan-jobs-21st.htm
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Publisher: New Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX11145

We distribute jobs by social class. If we 'qualify' all students with a college degree, then 100% of students will be competing for the 22% of jobs requiring college degrees. The answer here is not to push more kids in to college but pay better salaries to those jobs not requiring college.

Subject Headings

Education
Education Reform
Job Training