Are apprenticeships the answer?

From: Black Enterprise | Date: February 1, 1992| Author: Simms, Margaret C. | Copyright information

Many U.S. youth leave school with neither marketable employment skills nor career plans of any kind. Some educators and policymakers hope to bring to the US the European system of apprenticeships for non-college bound high school students.

American youth enter the job market alone. Young Europeans are led through an apprenticeship system.

Freedom of choice and independence of action have always been important to Americans. But young people looking for work are finding ...

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