Could increasing adult education reduce Michigan's unemployment?
A new report says that adult education - or job training - is the key to earning a living wage in Michigan, according to a story on MLive.com.
The report from the Michigan League for Human Services "urges the state to spend more on adult education as a way to attract new employers to the state," according to the story by Jennie L. Phipps.
Phipps quotes from the report: ""Because new technologies will require new skills even on the part of non-specialized assembly and service workers, it is important that the [state makes] a concerted effort to raise the basic skills (in reading, mathematics and, in some cases, English language) of Michigan’s low-skilled workers. In this way, job providers will have a labor pool that can readily learn the occupational skills that the existing and emerging industries will require."
Comments
JHW426
Thu, Sep 1, 2011 : 11:41 a.m.
"Could increasing adult education reduce unemployment?" Does more schooling create more jobs? NO. It just creates more educated unemployed. I know people with degrees that can't get basic retail jobs. We need to stop discouraging new businesses with political red tape, excessive permits and fees and taxes.
DonBee
Wed, Aug 31, 2011 : 11:39 p.m.
We spend in the state on average $150,000 to get a student from Kindergarden to Graduation. That is just the amount the public schools spend. One would think that for $150,000 a student that they would all have basic reading and basic math down cold. A classroom with 20 students in it in AAPS is worth more than $300,000 in revenue to the school system this year. One would think that that kind of money would buy the best and brightest teachers. Yet, we complain that there is not enough money to teach students the basics. Adult education is needed, but it saddens me to think that roughly 50 percent of the students that graduated last year from local high schools and go to the community colleges need remedial classes. Education in Michigan is broken, and has been broken for a long time. I would like to see answers to a way to do a better job of teaching children in our schools.
DonBee
Thu, Sep 1, 2011 : 12:18 p.m.
Bear - If it is a goal, it is a goal of the education establishment, because the statistics show the "dumbing down" going on for more than 20 years now. Many different parties have held sway during that time at the state and federal level, so no one group or party can be blamed, unless you blame the education establishment, who have been entrenched in the system since World War II.
Bear
Thu, Sep 1, 2011 : 8:10 a.m.
when you look at what passes for journalism, a blurb on what is happening in the civil war in libya, by a major news outlet, and they describe a 'reconnaissance' vehicle, depicted burning, as a 'recognizance' vehicle, do you really think it is a Michigan school problem and not one that is endemic to the system through the federal system? Education is broken, but not just in Michigan! It is the same environment that I spoke of above that encourages an environment that dumbs down our children. It is endemic in the situation. It is the goal.
Bear
Wed, Aug 31, 2011 : 11 p.m.
duh, that's what a lot of us have been saying for awhile. In the meantime, you find conservative leaders gutting our educational systems and driving our teachers away.