Community Colleges are Cutting Edge
HR Partnership | March 20, 2010
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excerpts from William Fulton on Citiwire.net
For half a century, Americans have been pounded with the message: “To get a good job, get a good education.” For people like me, who came of age in the Rust Belt in the ’70s, this meant only one thing: Go to a four-year college, get a white-collar job, and get out of the factories. This was a big change from the world of our parents. For them, economic security meant unionized semi-skilled factory jobs. For us, economic security meant bailing from the factory before it shut down and joining the white-collar workforce. |
But now it’s 2010, and white-collar jobs aren’t the ticket any more. Every day, more and more college-educated workers in America lose their job to “outsourcing” –especially to India, Ireland, and Eastern Europe, all of which have an abundance of highly educated English speakers capable of doing white-collar work.
So do you still need a good education to get a good job? Yes. But what is a good education? And what kind of good education will lead to a good job?
Carol Wilson screamed with joy last month when she learned her preschool program had earned four out of five stars from the state. “It was like winning a gold medal in the Olympics,” said Wilson, director of Portsmouth’s Simonsdale Presbyterian Preschool.
The first round of ratings were released last year. Parents can find ratings online at 
