Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America

by Laura W. Perna and Kathleen Davis

Book Overview

Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living. By 2018, 63 percent of all jobs will require at least some postsecondary education or training. Teachers and civic leaders stress the value of study through high school and beyond, but to an alarmingly large segment of America's population--including a disproportionate number of ethnic and racial minorities--higher education seems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244532
• ISBN13: 9780812244533
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"