Screen LibraryPreparing today's students for tomorrow's jobs in metropolitan America /
Written by researchers in education and urban policy, this volume offers useful insights into how to provide urban workers with the educational qualifications they need for real world jobs.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The city in the twenty-first century
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812208436 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812208436.jpg |
| Summary: |
Written by researchers in education and urban policy, this volume offers useful insights into how to provide urban workers with the educational qualifications they need for real world jobs. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 14 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812208436 |
| Index Number: | HD6278 |
| CLC: | F249.712.1 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Chapter 1. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor... A Public Policy Agenda on Today s Students and Tomorrow s Jobs / Chapter 2. Assessing and Measuring Workforce Readiness: A Discussion toward the Development of a Universal and Valid Measure / Chapter 3. Work- Based Learning: Initiatives and Impact / Chapter 4. Improving Career and Technical Education in the United States -- Chapter 5. Postsecondary Education and Economic Opportunity / Chapter 6. Community College Occupational Degrees: Are They Worth It? / Chapter 7. The Conundrum of Profit-Making Institutions in Higher Education / Chapter 8. Strengthening the Education and Workforce Connection: What Types of Research Are Required to Determine How Well Career Pathways Programs Prepare Students for College and Careers? / Chapter 9. Conceiving Regional Pathways to Prosperity Systems / Chapter 10. Aligning Secondary and Postsecondary Credentialization with Economic Development Strategy, or "If Low Educational Attainment Poor Metropolitan Competitiveness, What Can Be Done about It?" / Chapter 11. Creating Effective Education and Workforce Policies for Metropolitan Labor Markets in the United States / Conclusion / Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |