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- 02-04-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
A Harvard Graduate School of Education report that urges moving away from a “college for all” approach to education reform has created a coast-to-coast roiling debate. “Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century” calls for a much broader approach to post-secondary education than a college-prep curriculum for a four-year university. It should emphasize multiple career and college pathways in high school leading to associate’s degrees and job skills certificates. An estimated two-thirds of jobs that will be created over the next decade will require some education beyond high school, notes the report. But half of these will demand less than an associate’s degree, for jobs in nursing, commercial construction, health-care technology and manufacturing that demand technical skills. (more...)
Also: Christian Science Monitor
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