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>nearly nine in 10 jobs that disappeared since 2000 were lost to automation in the decades-long march to an information-driven economy, not to workers in other
by asn0 10y ago
>nearly nine in 10 jobs that disappeared since 2000 were lost to automation in the decades-long march to an information-driven economy, not to workers in other countries.
>Even if those jobs returned, a high school diploma is simply no longer good enough to fill them.
>fewer than 15 percent of the applicants [in Charlotte, N.C] were able to pass a reading, writing and math screening test geared toward a ninth-grade education.
There are going to be some disappointed people who thought all they had to do was vote for a president who would "bring back the jobs". On the plus side, looks like post-secondary education is going to be a valuable commodity as Trump tightens the labor market.
- 0xfeba 10y agoAnd a Ed. Secretary who is more concerned with vouchers for religious schools than helping public ed...
- shard972 10y agoMaybe public education is causing some of these issues, I don't know too many private school kids who get out of high school and can't read. Such things seem to be readily accepted in public high schools. I remember in my first year of high school I ended up getting selected for a program where I was to read and write the answers for another kid's final exam since he apparently didn't have the skills and it's not a requirement to finish high school. I wasn't monitored, so in theory I could have just gave him the answers. Looking back on this now, I'm kind of horrified.
- 0xfeba 10y agoYes, it is possible. But unfettered voucher systems aren't much better in that regard. To me, she just doesn't have the experience to run the DOEd. And her Reformed Christian bent does not bode well.
- ryandrake 10y agoThe voucher debate is 100% about using public money to send kids to religious schools. "Education quality" is a smokescreen and largely irrelevant. To test this, propose granting federal vouchers to anyone who asks, but with the limitation that they cannot be used at religious schools. I guarantee voucher supporters would oppose this.
- gowld 10y agoIt's also about using public money to fund for-profit diploma mills.
- tropo 10y agoI really don't think so. In fact, if such a ban would mean that vouchers couldn't be used for Islamic and Jewish schools, I suspect the typical voucher supporter would be relieved. The normal expectation is traditional private schools. Directly cashing the vouchers for homeschooling (books, chemistry set, opportunity cost of lost wages, etc.) is another possibility.
- st3v3r 10y ago"I don't know too many private school kids who get out of high school and can't read." I don't know too many private schools who would admit the kind of kid that would finish high school and not be able to read. Public schools don't have that luxury.
- discreditable 10y agoI don't think religious schools are inherently bad. I say this as an atheist who went to Catholic high school and now works at one. The academics in the private religious schools (around here at least) are significantly more rigorous than public schools (which I attended until high school). Certainly there is a strong religious influence. Maybe we're more liberal than some, but evolution is taught as true science. We did get abstinence education, but it was somewhat half-hearted.
- 0xfeba 10y agoOh I don't doubt there are very high quality private schools, even religious ones. The problem is there are also abominable ones, and there's no assurance with the voucher systems (as proposed) to discern between them.
- tomjen3 10y agoWell if those public schools had been better at teaching those students might have been able to pass that test. Seriously though, here in Denmark we have school vouchers. It means that middle class parents have an option if they don't like their local public school (and a private school is available nearby), it would have cost my parents less than 200 usd/month (less than daycare) to send me to a decent one.
- shard972 10y agoSo based on your last two quotes, it's not just technology but the dumbing down of the school system in the US that is creating unemployment problems?