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School-to-Career Blog 04xx06

The views expressed here are Chris' and are not necessarily the same as the Wake County Public School System.

Ready for College and Ready for Work: Same or Different?

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Quote from the article:

Results of a new ACT study provide empirical evidence that, whether planning to enter college or workforce training programs after graduation, high school students need to be educated to a comparable level of readiness in reading and mathematics. Graduates need this level of readiness if they are to succeed in college-level courses without remediation and to enter workforce training programs ready to learn job-specific skills.

Chris' thoughts -

This is a great little article about how all of our students need a rigorous high school education. Even the jobs that just require a high school diploma are requiring more math and other skills that up until now, only our college-bound students were getting.

This might be the strong evidence the state needs to make our College Tech Prep, and Career Prep students take the more rigorous courses that are offered in the College/University Prep course of study.

It's a different world then the one we grew up in. Today's kids need to be smarter just to survive. Our society is demanding smarter employees. Gone are the days when the dumb kids got the manual jobs. Even those jobs require higher level thinking skills.

The critical part of this paradigm shift (or new reality) is that our high school dropouts will be the ones left out. It is critical now, more than ever, that we keep our kids in school to get at least a high school education, and then hopefully prepare them for a life of work and more learning.

 

Well, at least that's what I'm thinking!
Chris Droessler

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