Narrowing the Divide between College and Trade Schools
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
College is now regarded as the "new high-school," with a four-year degree considered necessary for success in America's evolving economy. So why are so many four-year graduates underemployed and ill-equipped for the high-skilled jobs that are available? Would vocational schools better serve the workforce — and the economy?
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| 0:00.0 | Join left-right and center host Bob Shear for his new podcast, Shear Intelligence. |
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| 0:27.4 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:35.2 | Do you really need college to get a job? |
| 0:41.4 | Hello again, I'm A Woman Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:45.3 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:47.8 | Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders want to make college affordable, even free. |
| 0:51.9 | But is that the only road to employment? |
| 0:55.6 | For the life of me, I don't know why we have stigmatized vocational education. Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more |
| 1:00.8 | welders and less philosophers. Marco Rubio has a point. Potential workers don't have the training |
| 1:05.7 | for high-skilled jobs being created by new technology, while more and more college graduates |
| 1:10.6 | are both |
| 1:11.2 | underemployed and deeply in debt. |
| 1:14.3 | We'll get a reality check on education and America's manufacturing economy. |
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