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SchoolWorks
Reinventing Public Schools to Create the Workplace of the Future
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The U.S. is not alone in its worries over the quality of its schools and the skills of its workforce.
Not a single industrial nation is entirely happy with its education and worker training programs. But in four European countriesâFrance, Britain, Sweden, and West Germanyâeducators have joined hands with government, industry, and local communities to face the problem head-on.
The results of their imaginative initiatives recently were observed firsthand by participants in an equally innovative U.S. projectâthe West Philadelphia Improvement Corps (WEPIC). Support from the German Marshall Fund of the United States enabled two WEPIC groups-including public school teachers, principals, and administrators, as well as city and state policymakersâto tour some of the best European education, youth employment, and community development programs.
SchoolWorks describes what these groups found in Europe. It also profiles a project that is seeking to make West Philadelphia schools the life centers of their communities. Finally, it presents guiding principles for strengthening workforce competence in America, with particular emphasis on those Americans who will make up an increasingly significant portion of our future workforceâyoung minorities and blacks from our most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
A German Marshal Fund of the U.S. Book
Not a single industrial nation is entirely happy with its education and worker training programs. But in four European countriesâFrance, Britain, Sweden, and West Germanyâeducators have joined hands with government, industry, and local communities to face the problem head-on.
The results of their imaginative initiatives recently were observed firsthand by participants in an equally innovative U.S. projectâthe West Philadelphia Improvement Corps (WEPIC). Support from the German Marshall Fund of the United States enabled two WEPIC groups-including public school teachers, principals, and administrators, as well as city and state policymakersâto tour some of the best European education, youth employment, and community development programs.
SchoolWorks describes what these groups found in Europe. It also profiles a project that is seeking to make West Philadelphia schools the life centers of their communities. Finally, it presents guiding principles for strengthening workforce competence in America, with particular emphasis on those Americans who will make up an increasingly significant portion of our future workforceâyoung minorities and blacks from our most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
A German Marshal Fund of the U.S. Book
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- 1. WORKFORCE COMPETENCE: Where Education and Economy Meet
- 2. SWEDEN: A Nation Guarantees Its Children Work
- 3. WEST GERMANY: The Credentialed Society
- 4. FRANCE: A Nation Decentralizes
- 5. GREAT BRITAIN: Rehabilitating the âSick Man of Europeâ
- 6. WEPIC: Neighbors Reinvent the Public School
- 7. CONCLUSION: Guiding Principles for Strengthening Workforce Competence in America