Plus, community colleges are altering class schedules, offering distance learning, and going to the students. Because they can, and most companies can't on their own, Ms. Smith says. So what has happened, is companies have invested in their employees and sent them back to school. Even before community colleges, John Gardner, retiring president of the Quad-City Development Group, said traditional schools must rethink education for kindergarten students up through high school seniors. Teaching basic skills of math, communication, reading and writing will lay the proper foundations to build upon throughout a professional's career.
Schools have to be plugged into the business system.
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