How do you explain the mismatch between the high demand for skilled science and technical graduates and the low number of qualified applicants for those kinds of jobs? Here is a Q&A with Anthony Carnevale on his thoughts on how to meld the academic path with technical training.
I think the general trend is quite healthy, even though it’s taking years to happen. What this country did after 1983 [the “Nation At Risk” report] was remarkable, and we don’t give ourselves enough credit for basically the whole nation getting behind the movement to give everybody a decent academic education and stop with the home ec and voc-ed. Now we’re starting to have C.T.E. in addition to the academic path, and I think the real issue is, do we have a decent second act? Can we now create alternative pathways and meld these systems in ways that are much more creative?