-We beed to prepare students for jobs that don't require college degrees.
-Support the efforts to complete
-4-year college degree not the panacea
-We need a nation that has and values all sorts of work and skills.
Skills with no credential are no longer enough/ Carey
-The more complicated the world gets, the more complex skills the job market requires.
-Large parts of the economy are evolving.
-Not everyone is willing to or able to get a Bachelor's degree. Need a chance to try.
Some need more help to succeed in college/ Hrabowski
-A college education equips students with the tools they need to realize their own best paths.
-Some students don't come fully prepared.
-Balancing college access, costs, and excellence is not with out its difficulties.
For a middle-class life, college is crucial/ Carnevale
-Between 1973 and 2010, the share of jobs requiring education beyond high school more than doubled.
-College is what distinguished the middle-class from the goring number of low-income Americans.
-College is not a blue collar vs. white collar issue.
-Good jobs that require only a high school education are gone and will not be coming back.
Hrabowski makes a good point when it comes to saying that some students need more help than others. The educational system is pretty unfair when you think about it, they set a goal for everyone to reach and if you are not up to that level and cannot reach that goal, you fail and that is how it works. What should be is that it is tailored to one's specific need and what they could do so that there are not as many people failing because they cannot reach that unfair goal. Also, after finish high school, it is a ginormous jump to college and it seems like what we were preparing for was not the right thing and some people do not come as prepared as they need to, so there should be that balance as to what us as students do, what teachers do, and what the community needs to do.
WC: 355
My Stance
I would have to agree with Mishel because I do not think that we should always focus on everybody going to college. Yes, college is one thing to succeed and life and improve our skills, but it is not what we should all focus on. If we all focus on everybody going to college and getting jobs that are in offices, then we will not have any blue collar jobs left, we will not have anyone to do the mechanical work or plumbing, but everyone in little cubicles. Thinking about that is some what of a scary issue because we won't have anything left and everything will be all the same and there won't be that balance that is needed in society. We need those people who do office work and "clean" jobs, yet we also need people who do the dirty work for the rest of the society that does not want to do it. Going to college is not the main goal and a degree will not always get you everywhere, there are majors that you take that won't really help you once you get out of college and you end up doing nothing with what you just graduated from.Hrabowski makes a good point when it comes to saying that some students need more help than others. The educational system is pretty unfair when you think about it, they set a goal for everyone to reach and if you are not up to that level and cannot reach that goal, you fail and that is how it works. What should be is that it is tailored to one's specific need and what they could do so that there are not as many people failing because they cannot reach that unfair goal. Also, after finish high school, it is a ginormous jump to college and it seems like what we were preparing for was not the right thing and some people do not come as prepared as they need to, so there should be that balance as to what us as students do, what teachers do, and what the community needs to do.
WC: 355
