{"id":2374,"date":"2011-02-22T21:50:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T02:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/there-are-other-ways-than-a-college-degree.html"},"modified":"2011-02-22T21:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T02:50:50","slug":"there-are-other-ways-than-a-college-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/there-are-other-ways-than-a-college-degree.html","title":{"rendered":"There are other ways than a college degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepelicanpost.org\/2011\/02\/22\/harvard-study-calls-for-new-education-priorities\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.thepelicanpost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pathways-final-resized-300x203.jpg\"><\/a>\nEditor of the Pelican Post remarks\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepelicanpost.org\/2011\/02\/22\/harvard-study-calls-for-new-education-priorities\/\">\nHarvard Study Calls for New Education Priorities<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\nA new Harvard School of Education study,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gse.harvard.edu\/news_events\/features\/2011\/Pathways_to_Prosperity_Feb2011.pdf\">\n&#8220;Pathways to Prosperity,&#8221;<\/a>\nrecommends that educators place a stronger focus on vocational education\nand apprenticeships, rather than aim to send every high school student\nto college.\n<p>\n&#8220;We are the only developed nation that depends so exclusively on its\nhigher education system as the sole institutional vehicle to help young\npeople transition from secondary school to careers,&#8221; says Robert Schwartz,\nacademic dean of the college and co-author of the study.\n<\/blockquote>\nThis produces many problems: lots of people don&#8217;t get a college degree\nwho would like to (can&#8217;t afford to go; can&#8217;t pass),\nlots of people who do still can&#8217;t get a job,\nand let&#8217;s not get into\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1144\">\nthe Profzi scheme for Ph.Ds.<\/a>\nHere&#8217;s a partial solution:\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;We need to do a better job exposing our students to different career\npathways so that they understand what options are available to them\nafter graduation.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/ben-copeland-on-economy-and-education.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/Byo-S2LGeho\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nWait! Somebody local talked about this recently:\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/ben-copeland-on-economy-and-education.html\">\nBen Copeland at the Lake Park Chamber of Commerce.<\/a>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor of the Pelican Post remarks Harvard Study Calls for New Education Priorities: A new Harvard School of Education study, &#8220;Pathways to Prosperity,&#8221; recommends that educators place a stronger focus on vocational education and apprenticeships, rather than aim to send every high school student to college. &#8220;We are the only developed nation that depends so [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4996,2554,1531,1300,4994,3536,4995],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-apprentice","tag-ben-copeland","tag-college","tag-harvard","tag-high-school","tag-lake-park-chamber-of-commerce","tag-vocational"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Ci","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}