Tomorrow’s Workforce: Why Today Matters!

Approximately 60% of today’s students are

disconnected by the time they reach their 9th year of

education.

Approximately 30% of today’s freshman

will not graduate from high school.

Approximately 43% of graduates are deficient in the

necessary skills for success.

Approximately 50% of college

freshman drop out before their

second year.

Objective 1:

FOR

SUCCESS

What skills do they need?

Gap analysis: potential vs actual

Objective 2:Why are our

young people so

inadequately prepared?!

Root Cause Analysis

FACTOR FACTOR

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Objective 3:Tools and Strategies

“Business has the capacity to help solve the problem by partnering with education and community leaders

to create opportunities for young people to practice the skills they need to be successful.”

Bill Shore, DirectorU.S. Community Partners

GlaxoSmithKline

“Internships can be that opportunity that gives students a chance to cultivate applied skills needed in the workplace and to

understand how learning connects to careers or to solving real-world problems.”

Ken Kay, President Partnership for 21st Century Skills

School of Applied Skills

Education should be empowering. It should point us to our strengths, our capacity. That is what every parent

wants for their child: to be encouraged, challenged, to get along with others, and to have enough opportunities in a variety of settings to find their way to success..

Carolyn King Richmond ,President and CEO MicroSociety

“We need to create independent, self-motivated learners who have developed strong basic

skills and higher level of thinking that are able to transfer ideas and emphasize concepts. We

need to create leaders.Wilson Hughes, VP J&J

“So many parents don’t know what is out there for their child and what the expectations are, so they are dropping the ball when it comes to career and college planning.”

Brian Justin, CEOOptical Inc.

WORK ETHICS

THANK YOU!