Urban schools graduate 'students' who read at Second Grade levels and can't do any basic math!
Teaching a PC curricula based on a fluffy and meaningless, contrived who's who in the minorities does nothing for basic education skills.
By: Ed Crooks Published: Monday, 20 Jun 2011
A mismatch in the US labour market between the skills of unemployed people and the jobs available is making it hard for some companies to find the right staff despite an unemployment rate of more than 9 percent, one of the country’s largest manufacturing employers has warned. ...
“There’s a mismatch between the jobs that are available, at least in our portfolio, and the people that we see out there,” Mr Spiegel told the Financial Times. “There is a shortage (of workers with the right skills.)”
He said Siemens was having to invest in education and training to meet its staffing needs, including apprenticeship programmes of the kind it uses in Germany. ...
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