Tech Prep Associate Degree: Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Workplace
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Grimsley, Joseph W.
- Other Affiliation: President, Richmond Community College
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Crabbe, Anne B.
- Other Affiliation: Director of the Executive Leadership Program, Richmond Community College
- Abstract
- For generations, America's brightest students have followed a College Prep course of study during their high school years. While this group of students has been guided through their high school experience, the majority of students have been left to their own devices to select the courses in which they will enroll. Being human beings and prone to human weaknesses, these students have usually chosen the path of least resistance and taken the least demanding courses possible. Few students take Algebra by choice! Often, the only goal for the majority of students has been to finish. Unfortunately, as our nation's high drop-out statistics indicate, finishing school has not always included receiving a diploma. There is a certain irony in this scenario. Not trusting the intellect of our more advanced students to make the correct choices, we, as educators, have designed their curricula. Conversely, we have entrusted our average and below-average students with the decisions regarding the selection of their high school coursework, decisions that will affect their lives ever after. In so doing, we have failed to provide instruction in the concepts and skills needed to guarantee a decent future for the majority of our students.
- Date of publication
- 1993
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- Resource type
- Article
- Rights statement
- In Copyright
- Journal title
- Carolina Planning Journal
- Journal volume
- 19
- Journal issue
- 1
- Page start
- 34
- Page end
- 39
- Language
- English
- Digital collection
- Carolina Planning Journal
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