Read the last sentence in the article. He’s saying the problem is education. The remedy will be that we need more “education”. It’s the New York Times....they can’t help themselves.
Isn’t education essentially the same as OJT or shop classes?
Not really. What they are really admitting is that all the money that they keep throwing at education is a dismal failure:
"The problem, he finds, is that far too few graduate high school with the basic math and science skills that his company needs to compete."
We didn't have this problem years ago before all the socialist programs in education.