Before college, take ‘grownup training’
Postpone college for two years of “grownup training,” advises Brett Nelson on Forbes. Specifically: six months spent working in a factory, six in a restaurant, six on a farm and six in the military or...
View Article‘Career-relevant’ education, but not vo-tech
Instead of training high school students for specific careers, provide “career-relevant” education, writes Dana Goldstein. . . . we don’t want to limit working class kids to these often low-skills,...
View ArticleLate graduation pays off
It’s better to graduate late than to earn a GED, concludes a Center for Public Education study. Late graduates do significantly better than GED recipients in education, work, health and civic...
View ArticleSchools that work, literally
In Schools That Work, Literally in National Review, Samuel Casey Carter praises the Cristo Rey network of urban Catholic schools which send students into corporate jobs one day a week. “The educational...
View ArticleFishtown slides
While college-educated professionals are thriving, the white working-class is sliding into underclass behavior, writes Charles Murray in Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. In...
View ArticleEnd welfare — but what about the kids?
Abolish cash welfare, food and housing aid, except for the elderly and disabled, writes Peter Cove, founder of America Works, in What I Learned in the Poverty War in City Journal. We need to “move...
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College grads are less ‘engaged’ at work
College-educated Americans aren’t as engaged and challenged at work as less-educated workers, a new Gallup survey finds. That’s true for all ages and professions. Those with “some college” or a degree...
View Article‘Gifted,’ unemployed and living at home
A proud father responded to Matt Walsh’s radio show to tell him he’s “the sort of person who never should have been a parent.” Unkindly, Walsh reprinted the email on his blog. Nick starts by objecting...
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Lessons in manhood
Shop class — called simply “work” — channels “boy energy” at Berkeley’s East Bay School for Boys, reports NPR. The private, nonprofit school values creativity, resilience and self-reliance. Boys build...
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Who’s poor? Non-working singles
Alex Caicedo found full-time work and climbed above the poverty line last year. Photo: Justin T. Gellerson/New York Times Millions of Americans are climbing out of poverty, reported the New York Times...
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