Joanne Jacobs
Learn ‘agility’ to compete with robots
While schools struggle to teach basic 20th-century skills, 21st-century students will need to compete with robots for work in The Age of...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 16, 2017
- 1 min
Education pays — but there’s more than one way
Education is a path to upward mobility, writes Fordham’s Mike Petrilli in response to Rachel Cohen’s Atlantic story, Education Isn’t the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 4, 2017
- 2 min
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
- Oct 3, 2017
- 1 min
Schools vs. poverty: Poverty usually wins
Education doesn’t guarantee social mobility, writes Rachel M. Cohen in The Atlantic. “In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 19, 2017
- 1 min
Which colleges raise earnings?
University of California at Irvine tops Educate to Career’s college rankings, which compares how well colleges improve students’ labor...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 18, 2017
- 2 min
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
- Sep 6, 2017
- 2 min
Building the work-learn path to the middle class
“All throughout high school, they made it sound like going to college was our only option,” says Derrick Roberson, a 17-year-old high...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 5, 2017
- 1 min
Subsidize job training, not just college
Ryan Bouland, who used a Work Ethic scholarship from the Mike Rowe Foundation to fund trade school, works as a welder and takes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 28, 2017
- 2 min
Internships motivate — but scores are low
Student internships “saved” a low-performing Chicago school that serves low-income students, writes Hechinger’s Chris Berdik in The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 18, 2017
- 2 min
Learn now, pay later
Instead of paying for college, students can learn now, pay later at San Francisco’s Make School, reports Emily DeRuy in the San Jose...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 2, 2017
- 2 min
Colleges face shortage of students
Enrollments are way down at small, private nonprofit colleges, report’s Hechinger’s Jon Marcus. Even lower-cost public universities are...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 29, 2017
- 2 min
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 28, 2017
- 2 min
2 years to prosperity: nursing, aviation, tech trades
A two-year degree in nursing or a technical trade can lead quickly to a middle-class wage, reports Forbes in a story on top trade...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 25, 2017
- 1 min
After high school, what’s next?
In Out of High School, Into Real Life, the New York Times profiles recent graduates who aren’t enrolling in college. Many seem quite...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 17, 2017
- 1 min
Gift for grads: Digital clean-up service
Looking cool — or stupid? Getting ready for college now means cleaning up your online image, writes Taylor Lorenz on Mashable. Many high...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 16, 2017
- 2 min
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...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 10, 2017
- 1 min
Job market is strong for ’17 college grads
A new survey shows 74 percent of employers plan to hire recent college graduates this year, up from 67 percent last year. Thirty-nine...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 9, 2017
- 1 min
Most teens say ‘no’ to summer jobs
Most teenagers won’t be working this summer, reports Ben Steverman onBloomberg News. The summer job has gone from rite of passage to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 7, 2017
- 2 min
Where are the college men?
Fewer men are choosing college, reports Monte Whaley in the Denver Post. In 2015, 61.2 percent of Colorado’s female high school graduates...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 30, 2017
- 1 min
When a can-do town can’t find middle-class jobs
Amy Goldstein’s Janesville, the story of a Wisconsin town that lost its General Motors factory, isn’t just “decline porn,” writes J.D....
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