Which non-American education systems best prepare young people for fulfilling jobs and successful adult lives? And what can the United States where far too many young people currently enter adulthood without adequate preparation for the twenty-first-century job market learn, adopt, and adapt from these other systems?

In Schooling in the Workplace, Nancy Hoffman addresses these questions head on, arguing that the smartest and quickest route to a wide variety of occupations for the majority of young people in the successful countries not a default for failing students is a...

Which non-American education systems best prepare young people for fulfilling jobs and successful adult lives? And what can the United States where far too many young people currently enter adulthood without adequate preparation for the twenty-first-century job market learn, adopt, and adapt from these other systems?

In Schooling in the Workplace, Nancy Hoffman addresses these questions head on, arguing that the smartest and quickest route to a wide variety of occupations for the majority of young people in the successful countries not a default for failing students is a...

Minding the Gap argues that in today s highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education.

Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and practices that would quickly enable a larger number of low-income and first-generation college students to earn postsecondary degrees. In doing so, Minding the Gap calls for a system that thoroughly integrates secondary and postsecondary...