Posted in economy, media, tagged science, technology, trade, middle class, Joe the Plumber, competitiveness, future, Americans, public, trends, career, wages, standard of living, education, security, commission, governor, university, workers, reality check, loss, American, workforce, unemployed, service, social contract, study, New York Times, schools, untouchables, degree, college, globalization, labor, panacea, child, Great Recession, STEM, Ph.D, insource, outsource, analysis, states, Susan Hockfield, too many four year graduates, student loan bubble, student lending, educational loans, academic costs, skilled labor, middle skill jobs, low wage, growth projections, Curt Eysink, Louisiana, vocational, skilled, foreign, grad students, visas, cost of going to school, outweigh benefits, internationalize, employ, hire, back to school, failing, truth about, Jindal, ticket-takers, cashier, home health aids, electrician, plumber, machinist, mechanic, seeing red, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, curriculum, stability, undercut, offshore, inshore, credential, employment insecurity, editorial, nobel winners, foreigners, create jobs, H1B, H-1B, students, continuing education, right decision, fluke, advice, politically correct, critical, campuses, United States, U.S., rude awakening, ailing economy, silver lining, genius to succeed, grades, hope for, IQ, labor department, statistics, growth sector, invest, cashiers, customer service agents, representatives, secretary, service sector, aspiring, Tom Friedman, engineering, math, where are the jobs, fields, unpopular view, Louisiana Workforce Commission, higher education system, reforming, unemployable, too many, too few, not enough, forecasts, occupation, requiring, technical, diminish, prospects, income, lobby attendants, Belle Wheelan, Jan Moller, Ann Pace, Forgotten MiddleSkill Jobs, Workforce Alliance, Skills2Compete, national outlook, report, survey, director, the bell curve, should I return to school, worthwhile, industry, options, agency, career change, seekers, hands-on, skillset on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Curt Eysink is an unpopular man.
Less than three months after assuming his post as executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, he told a panel charged with overhauling the state’s higher education system: “We’re producing a workforce that we cannot employ in Louisiana.”
The apparent problem? Too many four-year college grads and not enough low-skill and vocational trade workers. …
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We’ve been on the path to globalized trade so long now that it is possible to imagine what the future may look like. Is yesterday’s conspiracy — the New World Order — tomorrow’s reality? This column compares an abstract subject to something most of us are far more comfortable with: raindrops.
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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman makes a superficially compelling case for reforming education in pursuit of American Competitiveness. But is he overstating its promise?
