Content by Caroline Preston
How Colleges Can Help Students Out-Compete RobotsDoubling down on technical skills isn’t the answer
Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:03
There’s a lot of anxiety out there about robots gobbling up our jobs. One oft-cited Oxford University study predicts that up to 47 percent of U.S. jobs are vulnerable to automation. Other research suggests the share is much lower. But while the…
Convincing Students That Manufacturing Job Skills Will Pay OffA tale of unconventional supply and demand
Mon, 12/03/2018 - 12:01
The high school students clustered around a 4 ft-tall red robot with long arms and cartoonish eyes. A so-called collaborative robot, programmed to work with humans at Prent Corp., a packaging company, it looked cute, not intimidating. But on this…
Are Apprenticeships the New On-Ramp to Good Jobs?The learn-and-earn model could spread, with a little help from the feds
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 12:02
Editor’s note: This story is part of Map to the Middle Class, a Hechinger Report series looking at the good middle-class jobs of the future and how schools are preparing young people for them. The program had to be a scam. Why would anyone, she…