Educational Standards Crisis and Jobs Crisis

From first-hand experience as a high school teacher in Ontario, Canada, this writer knows that the same erosion of educational standards in the US is underway in Canada.  This is why the US and Canada need immigrants with hard skills, work ethics, and intact traditional families.

 

Mark, this is first-class, thought, thorough, and very timely. In particular, your observation about how higher learning is moving away from degrees toward continuing education, also known as workshops and skill certificates, is exactly what MIT economist Lester Thurow predicted in his 1995 The Future of Capitalism. Thurow argued that nobody more and more knows what a degree means, if anything. How much knowedge and skill mastery does it represent, for instance? As a result, employers, the marketplace - as he predicted - is turning away from degrees toward training and development. In short, we have a jobs crisis because in large part we have a standards crisis. This is why your humble servant here belongs to ASTD, the American Society for Training and Development. Look to, prepare for the future. Great job!