Joanne Jacobs
‘Every weld is a challenge’
Philadelphia schools are focusing career-tech training on preparing students to move from high school to apprenticeships and skilled...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 13, 20181 min read
Degree inflation doesn’t pay
Now that unemployment is down, employers may think twice about degree inflation, writes Preston Cooper in Forbes. They can’t afford to be...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 27, 20171 min read
Fear of tracking undercuts apprenticeship push
America’s history of tracking could doom proposals for youth apprenticeships, writes New America’s Abigail Swisher. Would a robust system...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 26, 20172 min read
$500 billion for college, $8 billion for job training
Donald Trump’s June 2017 executive order calling for the expansion of apprenticeships, is “good PR,” Anthony Carnevale tells The...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 4, 20172 min read
A debt-free path to a good job
While some states offer “free college” or “free community college” to build a skilled workforce, Virginia is funding vocational...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 18, 20172 min read
Free college? Voters aren’t sold
“Free college” won’t be a political winner for Democrats, writes Edward-Isaac Dovere in Politico. The call for free college tuition...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 29, 20172 min read
Apprenticeship: Will it work in the U.S.?
The much-admired German apprenticeship system “relies on a very stratified education system along with regulated and heavily unionized...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 16, 20172 min read
P-TECH grows, but is it working?
IBM is scaling up the wildly popular P-TECH model,reports Jenny Abamu on EdSurge. But the original Brooklyn school is struggling to raise...
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