Areas of study previously relegated to certain groups of students are now required for all students.
Business becomes involved in designing effective curriculums.
Schools consider ways to get their students to think about the requirements they will need for their career goals. These movements are the result of the School to Work Opportunities Act, passed by Congress in 1994 to foster a framework for business and educational partnerships. This framework would then promote discussion between these two traditionally foreign groups. To maximize the potential for this partnership, intermediary organizations would be solicited. Not surprisingly, when they gathered for the first time, the partners had much to discuss.