The “College and Career Ready” Farce

[Modern School]

Schools around the country are tossing out the old “College for All” slogan and replacing it with the popular Obama-school cliché, “College and Career Ready.”


However, when you get right down to it, “College and Career Ready” is really just another way to say “College for All.” Both use the same rhetoric and euphemisms: “high standards and expectations,” increasing “rigor,” and “20th Century skills.” The same standardized exams and the same punishments for schools and teachers are applied, whether our students are training for college or for a life of physical toil.

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[Lifelong Protester]

1. We cannot slogan our way out of the fact that the disolving

middle class and the crumbling support for Americans who are not in the upper 1%, continue to make it IMPOSSIBLE to make EVERYONE college-ready.

[msongs]

2. not much need for a degree when our corporations and government send the jobs overseas nt

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. College for All has never been a good idea

I see it everyday. Students who are ill prepared in terms of attitude, aptitude, and academics for college level work. They are wasting time and money at the universities.

There are any number of skilled trades jobs that requrie advanced training including some community college level work and can not be off shored. They pay competitively, have room for advancement, and at the end of the day are productive for society. Unfortunately, they also get little respect in our image driven culture. Mike Holmes (the Holmes on Homes guy) from Canada is actively promoting the skilled trades as a good way of life. He has a point. Europe makes this work as well. We need to learn from that and promote here in the US.

[adnelson60087]

4. Hear Hear! I've been saying this for years

and no one wants to hear this plain and simple truth. We need plumbers and carpenters as well as physicians and accountants. Speaking of...whatever became of Business
Schools? Not universities that offered business degrees, but real Schools of Business that taught very specific skills to be used in business? Anyone know?