Invest in Career-Readiness Training for College Students. Sketching a New Conservative Education Agenda / Aimée Eubanks Davis.
In America, it is promised that self-discipline, hard work, and ambition will be met with equality of opportunity. That is a promise that has failed to be kept far too often. Now more than ever, it must be ensured that talented college students, particularly those from low-income backgrounds, are pr...
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| Summary: | In America, it is promised that self-discipline, hard work, and ambition will be met with equality of opportunity. That is a promise that has failed to be kept far too often. Now more than ever, it must be ensured that talented college students, particularly those from low-income backgrounds, are prepared to compete for strong jobs before they graduate. This can be achieved by infusing high-quality career preparation into the academic side of higher education and making it accessible to all (i.e., students who attend college while working full-time). This report presents five core elements of successful career-preparation efforts. |
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| Item Description: | Availability: American Enterprise Institute. 1150 Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202-862-5800; Fax: 202-862-7177; Web site: http://www.aei.org. Abstractor: ERIC. Educational level discussed: Higher Education. Educational level discussed: Postsecondary Education. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (3 pages) |
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| Preferred Citation of Described Materials Note: | American Enterprise Institute. |