Russell Sage Foundation, 1996. Education is offered in traditional, standardized institutions, while job-training programs are scattered over many different places. . . Educational curriculum is also standardized, while job training programs may offer whatever they feel is needed, which may result in uneven or useless job skills. Educational curriculum includes the broad areas of intellectual, political, and moral purposes. Job training is federally mandated, while schools are state mandated.
States have little room to prepare employees for their specific markets.
He believes that this poor performance is due to the split between job training and education. Back to Index Grubb, W. Norton. Reconstructing Urban Schools. He also suggests that school and work be combined through the use of such programs as apprenticeships. Teachers' College Record.