A World of Opportunity: Postsecondary Training and Education for All

Autor/in	Carnevale, Anthony
Titel	A World of Opportunity: Postsecondary Training and Education for All
Quelle	In: Community College Journal, 78 (2008) 3, S.24-27 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1067-1803
Schlagwörter	Postsecondary Education; Human Capital; Labor Market; Metacognition; Education Work Relationship; Higher Education; Global Approach; Equal Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Humankapital; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Globales Denken
Abstract	For most of the 20th century, high school was enough for a shot at middle-class status and wages. Eventually high school was surpassed by postsecondary education as the preferred route to professional and managerial jobs in the post-World War II era. This article describes how today, young workers rarely go anywhere in the American job market without at least some postsecondary education or training. The notion that everyone needs at least some college certainly does not go uncontested among the experts. Today, more than two-thirds of students go on to postsecondary education or formal training after high school. The maxims "college for all" and "postsecondary education and training for all" are here to stay, because they are animated by a uniquely American mix of cultural and political biases in combination with a set of economic forces that are driving a revolution in global human capital. In the United States, Americans welcome their increasing reliance on access to postsecondary education as the arbiter of individual career opportunity. This author states that the use of education as the arbiter of opportunity also complements other key preferences for an open economy and a limited government; for example, education, as opposed to job-specific training, helps workers develop the metacognitive skills to keep pace with changing skill requirements and fosters the economic self-reliance needed to ward off public dependency and an expanding welfare state. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10