IP: One Answer on College Doesn't Fit All Graduates

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> One Answer on College Doesn't Fit All Graduates
>
> By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN
> The New York Times
>
> Eidi Leonard is a career and college counselor in Newport Beach, Calif.,
> where most parents are college-educated professionals. Recently, Ms. Leonard
> advised a high school student with poor grades but a passion for
> automobiles, finding him an internship at an elite racing car company.
>
> She thought it could lead to a well- paid career. But the boy's parents were
> incensed, insisting that he go to college. Ms. Leonard suspects he will soon
> drop out and take less desirable work than the internship he rejected.
>
> This kind of thing is happening all over the country because of an illusion
> that college is for everyone and that a high-tech future requires as many
> college graduates as possible. Yet the Department of Labor expects only
> about a fourth of future jobs to require college degrees.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/15/national/15LESS.html
>
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