Immigrant adults are taking summer jobs once done by U.S. teenagers, writes Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner. “Immigrants — legal and illegal — are crowding out U.S.-born teenagers in the labor market,” according to  Center of Immigration Studies report by Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler. Young people who worked in high school earn more after graduation than those with no job experience, “with wage differences tending to increase over time,” the report notes. The n

Robots will replace teachers by 2027, predicts Anthony Seldon, a British educator. Can teaching be automated? asks Kristin Houser, senior editor of Futurism. “Machines are replacing finance experts, outperforming doctors, and competing with advertising masterminds,” she writes. However, no digital system can compete with humans when it comes to understanding what students need, Rose Luckin, a University College London Knowledge Lab professor, told  Futurism. “I do not believe

America’s history of tracking could doom proposals for youth apprenticeships, writes New America’s Abigail Swisher. Would a robust system of youth apprenticeship, scaled across the country, expand educational and career opportunity for all students, or would it return us to an education model that unfairly sorts and separates students into unequal tracks? In the past, students from low-income and non-white families were the most likely to be labeled “not college material” and

While schools struggle to teach basic 20th-century skills,  21st-century students will need to compete with robots for work in The Age of Agility, warns a new report by America Succeeds. “The paper echoes growing fears of a ‘fourth Industrial Revolution’ that could shunt aside blue- and white-collar workers alike in favor of ever-more-capable machines,” writes Kevin Mahnken on The 74. Nearly half of all American jobs could be threatened by computerization within the next 20 y

Manufacturers are working with Michigan community colleges to redesign career technical education, reports Emily DeRuy in The Atlantic. Automation is coming, but employers need workers who can “manage the machines doing the work.” At Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan, three students “stare intently at a machine that helps move panels along a conveyor belt,” she writes. . . .  after several moments of careful inspection, the students exchange a few ideas, make a couple

Robots — artificial intelligence technology — will take up to 47 percent of U.S. jobs in the next few decades, predicts a White House report released last month. The least educated will be the most vulnerable: Self-driving vehicles are expected to replace 2.2 million to 3.1 million people with driving jobs. Investing in education could keep the American Dream alive, writes Drew Hanson in Forbes. Retraining displaced workers isn’t enough. he writes. “We must improve secondary

Is a college degree the new high school diploma? asks Jeffrey Selingo in the Washington Post. The “degree premium” — the earnings gap between high school and college graduates — grew rapidly in the 1980s, slowed in ’90s and has plateaued since 2000, according to a new study by Robert G. Valletta of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Technology investments in the ’80s and ’90s increased the demand for college graduates, displacing lower-level workers, writes Selingo. A