Higher Education and Jobs - Anthony Carnevale, Georgetown
dávám do placu: Western societies struggle with the contradictions between the equality implicit in democratic citizenship and the inequality that accompanies free markets. To reconcile this conflict, mass education has been relied upon to serve as a merit-based pathway toward good work and full citizenship. Anthony Carnevale, Research Professor and Director of the Global Institute on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University, discusses how the American reliance on education as the arbiter of opportunity fits well with our highly individualistic and independent culture. He notes that today’s deeply held belief in “college for all” is a unifying force that spans the political spectrum. It also reflects the reality of the shifting American economy: the share of U.S. workers with at least some postsecondaryeducation has more than doubled in the last 30 years or so. Furthermore, the middle class is declining as its membership is being sorted out based on educational attainment level; simply put, the educational haves are moving up and the have-nots are moving down. Carnevale acknowledges higher education’s traditional cultural and political mission to educate the citizenry, and emphasizes that it has a crucial economic role to fill as well.
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