As a result of that act, schools across the country instituted programs designed to actively prepare students for the future job market. Now, Education World offers you a look at some of those results. Seventy-five percent of U.S. youths do not graduate from college. Heightened international competition and new technologies have lessened the demand for, and shrunk the earning power of, unskilled laborers.
Students learn better and retain more when they learn in context rather than in the abstract.
U.S. employers say that 20 percent of their workers are not fully proficient in their jobs. U.S. employers do not rely on public educational institutions for training their employees. In short, students did not see a connection between the classroom and the workplace, and few schools or businesses were providing that connection. Rather it provided the funds that would allow states to develop their own programs. Consequently, though many programs share common elements, each is unique and each is determined by the needs of its own students.