Only 66% of the New Jobs from 20

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From The Great Schools Revolution from Economist Magazine 9/17/11

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With non performing students leaving at 15,
Germany had more money for training seemed appropriate.

from the 9/22/11 issue of From Business Week

Germany's Drop Out Rate is the Lowest

In the U.S., Formal Education Beyond High School IS Not Required for 66% of the 2008-2018 Job Openings Bureau of Labor Statistic PDF (3.5M), page 15 Please Blog Friends About This Free Library Using
It's Time to for a Change Prelude Changing Education Paradigms from Royal Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufact , Commerce 1) Grades one to eight can not be so academic that students drop out. For more information visit Primary Skills. 2) With 66% of the high school graduates taking jobs that require no additional formal education, curriculums must be made more life skills applicable. For example, studies show that those people with self-control do better in many aspects of life and this is something that can be taught. 3) Technology and International Trade are destroying good jobs. See The Sagging of the Middle Class. 4). With only 4% of the jobs requiring an advanced degree, a bachelor's degree should be solely directed toward entry level careers. That is, a nursing student should not have to take statistics (a course I taught for 35 years) because they might some day go on for a master's degree. So for every 100 nursing students who take statistics, 10might need it later and by then will have forgot what little they learned. 5) Because the economic Laws of Diminishing Returns and Diminishing Utility apply to the learning experience, the school year should be expanded to four twelve-week terms with a four hour day running from 8 AM to noon and 1PM to 5PM for HS. ES would d be from 8:30 AM to 12:30PM and 1:30PM to 5:30 PM. Teaches would be required to teach four terms per year. Teaching additional courses for extra pay would be encouraged and teaching an unpaid overload to accumulate leave time would be an earned privilege. For example a teacher earning $64,000/year for a morning shift or $4000 per course might teach an overload afternoon course for $2000. Four teachers doing this would save half a salary for society. Academically gifted students could take courses in the second session. This system would be advantageous for vocational HS as it provides time for students to work. Two talented students might even combine for a full time job. . A lower minimum wage for part time students not requiring payroll taxes would help. Sports would benefit as one sport might go in the morning and practice in the afternoon and a second sport would do the opposite thus making much better use of facilities. School systems could retire older facilities and free rooms could be rented to people wanting to run morning and afternoon day care for working parents. Teachers and HS students could work in day care programs for a reasonable fee. Students wishing to graduate early could take extra courses during a different session for a fee. 6) Students would take four courses designed so students can progress at their own pace. 1) Communicating, 2) Math/science 3) Social Science 4) Whatever they want excluding courses 1-3. 7) Tech-based Education would apply to college education immediately but hopefully soon spread to secondary education.		8) The Quick Notes Philosophy was the bases for much of this dissertation.
Good Jobs are Up but College Graduates are up Much More!		Executive Summary from our Current Events Internet Library 4) Fix public education A. Treat academic all stars like sports stars B. Stress the economic and personal skills enhancement of those in the middle C. Follow the lead of the cities lke Baltimore in keeping kids from dropping out Visit Our Other Learning Libraries http://www.textbooksfree.org/Free%20Internet%20Libraries.htm#Education__1 Stay Current John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy covers post-secondary issues. The Rising Value of a Science Degree College Degree Value: David Hummels, Rasmus Jorgensen, Jakob R. Munch and Chong Xiang examine data from Denmark to look at the connection between globalization, inequality and the value of a college degree. “With stagnating wages and lingering unemployment, income inequality is back in the headlines. Is globalization to blame for this inequality? Is more education a solution? This column argues that focusing on university education misses important effects. It presents evidence that wage effects vary markedly among those with degrees depending on their specific skill sets, and that globalization can often benefit workers without degrees.” Watch Videos and Understand Formula for changing math education Ken Robinson Says Schools Kill Creativity Elizabeth Gilbert On Genius The 5 Minute University