Not All Students Go to College. We Need to Make That OK.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/opinion/college-technical-vocational-education.html
Why Some Schools Are Rethinking ‘College for All’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/college-for-all-kipp-international-baccalaureate.html
The idea that every student should aim for a four-year college has long motivated a bipartisan movement. Now even enthusiastic promoters are reconsidering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/opinion/college-technical-vocational-education.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/college-for-all-kipp-international-baccalaureate.html
The idea that every student should aim for a four-year college has long motivated a bipartisan movement. Now even enthusiastic promoters are reconsidering.
The High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/skilled-trades-high-school-recruitment-fd9f8257
Companies with shortages of skilled workers look to shop class to recruit future hires; ‘like I’m an athlete getting all this attention from all these pro teams’.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/skilled-trades-high-school-recruitment-fd9f8257
Companies with shortages of skilled workers look to shop class to recruit future hires; ‘like I’m an athlete getting all this attention from all these pro teams’.
The Schools Reviving Shop Class Offer a Hedge Against the AI Future
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/high-school-shop-class-revival-24d7a525
Hands-on skills are staging a comeback at leading-edge districts, driven by high college costs and demand for more career choices.
How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/gen-z-trades-jobs-plumbing-welding-a76b5e43
More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/high-school-shop-class-revival-24d7a525
Hands-on skills are staging a comeback at leading-edge districts, driven by high college costs and demand for more career choices.
How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/gen-z-trades-jobs-plumbing-welding-a76b5e43
More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs.
When College Might Not Be Worth It (NY FED Analysis)
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/04/when-college-might-not-be-worth-it/
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/04/when-college-might-not-be-worth-it/
From 2022:
Is the US higher education bubble about to burst? By Vivekanand Jayakumar, 01/24/22
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/590971-will-the-us-higher-education-bubble-finally-burst/
First and foremost, it is necessary to offer high school graduates multiple pathways to attain a well-paying career. Given that the U.S. economy is suffering from a significant and long-term skills mismatch and facing a massive shortage of truck drivers, welders, electricians, construction workers and a whole slew of various other skilled tradespeople, it is necessary to encourage more entrants into these fields.