According to a recent study contacted by actual employers around the country, many high school students lack the essential job and life skills necessary to succeed. The “Are They Really Ready to Work” Study revealed numerous deficiencies for most US high school graduates.
According to this study, graduates lack many essential skills, most of which would be categorized as encompassing the realm of basic education. Among other things, the study found that some 72% of graduates are deficient in writing and a staggering 53% are deficient in math. Even among 2 year college graduates, students lack many basic skills in writing, spelling or in simply communicating.
Such news is a harbinger of limited competitiveness this country faces in the future. Yet we continue to hear from school choice opponents that our schools are progressing, that schools are improving and choice will do more harm than good. On the contrary, as long as students remained tied to an obviously failed model, our country will continue to stagger behind the rest of the industrialized world.
Given the deficiency in skills found in a growing number of today’s work force, it comes as no surprise that more and more employers have turned to foreigners to fill high skilled jobs, particularly in the high tech and engineering fields.
http://www.thejournal.com/articles/19491
