America Prepares For Tomorrow

Author : Laura W. Perna
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780812208436

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Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America by Laura W. Perna Pdf

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 neither obtainable nor relevant. Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America, edited by Laura W. Perna, offers useful insights into how to bridge these gaps and provide urban workers with the educational qualifications and skills they need for real-world jobs. Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America probes more deeply than recent reports on the misalignment between workers' training and employers' requirements. Written by researchers in education and urban policy, this volume takes a comprehensive approach. It informs our understanding of the measurement and definition of the learning required by employers. It examines the roles that different educational sectors and providers play in workforce readiness. It analyzes the institutional practices and public policies that promote the educational preparation of today's students for tomorrow's jobs. The volume also sheds light on several recurring questions, such as what is the "right" amount of education, and what should be the relative emphasis on "general" versus "specific" or "occupational" education and training? Ensuring that today's students have the education and training to meet future career demands is critical to the economic and social well-being of individuals, cities, and the nation as a whole. With recommendations for institutional leaders and public policymakers, as well as future research, this volume takes important steps toward realizing this goal.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCR:31210014037632

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Is Working America Preparing for Retirement? by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging Pdf

Author : Laura W. Perna
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812244533

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Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America by Laura W. Perna Pdf

Written by researchers in education and urban policy, this volume offers useful insights into how to provide urban workers with the educational qualifications they need for real world jobs.

Author : Stephen Wertheim
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674248663

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Tomorrow, the World by Stephen Wertheim Pdf

A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world. For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world’s armed superpower—and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America’s transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France, the architects of the nation’s new foreign policy came to believe that the United States ought to achieve primacy in international affairs forevermore. Scholars have struggled to explain the decision to pursue global supremacy. Some deny that American elites made a willing choice, casting the United States as a reluctant power that sloughed off “isolationism” only after all potential competitors lay in ruins. Others contend that the United States had always coveted global dominance and realized its ambition at the first opportunity. Both views are wrong. As late as 1940, the small coterie of officials and experts who composed the U.S. foreign policy class either wanted British preeminence in global affairs to continue or hoped that no power would dominate. The war, however, swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that the United States should extend its form of law and order across the globe and back it at gunpoint. Wertheim argues that no one favored “isolationism”—a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy in order to turn their own cause into the definition of a new “internationalism.” We now live, Wertheim warns, in the world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned narrative that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today’s global entanglements and endless wars.

Author : Stephen Marche
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982123222

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The Next Civil War by Stephen Marche Pdf

“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue that drama with the authority of documentary.” —The New York Times Book Review A celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagines five chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with experts of all kinds. The United States is coming to an end. The only question is how. On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right anti-government patriots. Inside an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun takes aim at the American president stepping in for an impromptu photo-op, and a bullet splits the hyper-partisan country into violently opposed mourners and revelers. In New York City, a Category 2 hurricane plunges entire neighborhoods underwater and creates millions of refugees overnight—a blow that comes on the heels of a financial crash and years of catastrophic droughts—and tips America over the edge into ruin. These nightmarish scenarios are just three of the five possibilities most likely to spark devastating chaos in the United States that are brought to life in The Next Civil War, a chilling and deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction. Drawing upon sophisticated predictive models and nearly two hundred interviews with experts—civil war scholars, military leaders, law enforcement officials, secret service agents, agricultural specialists, environmentalists, war historians, and political scientists—journalist Stephen Marche predicts the terrifying future collapse that so many of us do not want to see unfolding in front of our eyes. Marche has spoken with soldiers and counterinsurgency experts about what it would take to control the population of the United States, and the battle plans for the next civil war have already been drawn up. Not by novelists, but by colonels. No matter your political leaning, most of us can sense that America is barreling toward catastrophe—of one kind or another. Relevant and revelatory, The Next Civil War plainly breaks down the looming threats to America and is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of its people, its land, and its government.

Author : George Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BNVA1001524139

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Instructions for researcerelative to the Ethnology and Philology of America prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by George Gibbs by George Gibbs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000058937044

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Is America's Housing Market Prepared for the Next Natural Catastrophe? by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : African Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031589687

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Papers Prepared for National Conference on Equal Educational Opportunity in America's Cities, November 16, 17, 18, 1967, Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Woodrow Polston
Publisher : Creation House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1621363716

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Preparing America for the Wrath of God by Woodrow Polston Pdf

Judgment is coming. Are you prepared?

Author : Barbara F. Walter
Publisher : Crown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780593137802

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How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States “Required reading for anyone invested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD • THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financial Times, The Times (UK), Esquire, Prospect (UK) Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents? Or is this the start of something bigger? Barbara F. Walter has spent her career studying civil conflict in places like Iraq, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka, but now she has become increasingly worried about her own country. Perhaps surprisingly, both autocracies and healthy democracies are largely immune from civil war; it’s the countries in the middle ground that are most vulnerable. And this is where more and more countries, including the United States, are finding themselves today. Over the last two decades, the number of active civil wars around the world has almost doubled. Walter reveals the warning signs—where wars tend to start, who initiates them, what triggers them—and why some countries tip over into conflict while others remain stable. Drawing on the latest international research and lessons from over twenty countries, Walter identifies the crucial risk factors, from democratic backsliding to factionalization and the politics of resentment. A civil war today won’t look like America in the 1860s, Russia in the 1920s, or Spain in the 1930s. It will begin with sporadic acts of violence and terror, accelerated by social media. It will sneak up on us and leave us wondering how we could have been so blind. In this urgent and insightful book, Walter redefines civil war for a new age, providing the framework we need to confront the danger we now face—and the knowledge to stop it before it’s too late.

Author : Oswald Spengler,Arthur Helps,Charles Francis Atkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0195066340

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The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler,Arthur Helps,Charles Francis Atkinson Pdf

Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Consumer price indexes
ISBN : UCR:31210024748590

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The Effects of Budget Cuts on the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Changes in the Consumer Price Index by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Biology
ISBN : NYPL:33433007813581

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The American Naturalist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ai-jen Poo,Ariane Conrad
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620970461

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The Age of Dignity by Ai-jen Poo,Ariane Conrad Pdf

One of Time’s 100 most influential people “shines a new light on the need for a holistic approach to caregiving in America . . . Timely and hopeful” (Maria Shriver). In The Age of Dignity, thought leader and activist Ai-jen Poo offers a wake-up call about the statistical reality that will affect us all: Fourteen percent of our population is now over sixty-five; by 2030 that ratio will be one in five. In fact, our fastest-growing demographic is the eighty-five-plus age group—over five million people now, a number that is expected to more than double in the next twenty years. This change presents us with a new challenge: how we care for and support quality of life for the unprecedented numbers of older Americans who will need it. Despite these daunting numbers, Poo has written a profoundly hopeful book, giving us a glimpse into the stories and often hidden experiences of the people—family caregivers, older people, and home care workers—whose lives will be directly shaped and reshaped in this moment of demographic change. The Age of Dignity outlines a road map for how we can become a more caring nation, providing solutions for fixing our fraying safety net while also increasing opportunities for women, immigrants, and the unemployed in our workforce. As Poo has said, “Care is the strategy and the solution toward a better future for all of us.” “Every American should read this slender book. With luck, it will be the future for all of us.” —Gloria Steinem “Positive and inclusive.” —The New York Times “A big-hearted book [that] seeks to transform our dismal view of aging and caregiving.” —Ms. magazine

Author : United States National Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1546 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Science
ISBN : CHI:16993532

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Report of the Assistant Director and of the Curators of the U.S. National Museum by United States National Museum Pdf