Welcome back to the Ten Blocks Podcast. This is your host, Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

We hope you've been enjoying the new intro and our weekly schedule. Next week, we'll have

Heather McDonald on the show, which I'm sure most of you will enjoy. Coming up on this episode

of Ten Blocks, we have another live discussion for our listeners.

As we've talked about before on the podcast, long-term joblessness, the great domestic crisis of the 21st century, as Edward Glazer calls it, has become a major focus for our writers at the magazine.

Fixing America's crisis of work, however, will also require major upgrades to K-12 education.

This challenge was the focus of our second and final symposium based on the City

Journal's special issue, The Shape of Work to Come. We invited experts in career and technical education,

commonly referred to as CTE, to talk about

how we can begin to reform education to prepare all kids for the future, not just those headed

to college. On the panel, we have Kristen Kearns Jordan, CEO of Urban Assembly Charter

Schools. Then there's John Woodland, Executive Director

of Career and Technical Education at New York City's Department of Education. And last but not

least, there's Steve Melangis, City Journal's senior editor and author of a fascinating new piece

for our most recent issue, Dirty Jobs, Good Pay,

about how to revive American work ethic.

But the next voice you'll hear on the podcast is Howard Hussack,

Vice President of Research and Publications at the Manhattan Institute,

and a contributing editor of City Journal.

We hope you enjoy.

Thank you. and a contributing editor of City Journal. We hope you enjoy. Thank you so much, Brian, and thanks to our distinguished panel for participating today. As the credentials that Brian noted imply, our focus today in terms of those non-participants in our workforce is something

called CTE. Don't call it vocational education, call it career and technical education.

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