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The biggest thing to teach them is the ability to learn. By the time they graduate much has changed anyway.

Won’t “Common Core” help fix the skills gap?

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Been working from home for the last 5 years. The work force is changing. There are others in my company and in my hood that also work from home.

The mentioned programs are fine and pro-American. Watch out if someone starts claiming a skills gap that must be addressed by letting in more foreign workers (as with "technically skilled" H-1Bs) - that's a scam for corporate globalists to further fatten their wallets at the expense of the American standard of living.

Congress can at least address this problem head-on this year by passing the proposed USA Workforce Tax Credit Act, or HR 5153, which was introduced by Rep. Lloyd Smucker, Pennsylvania Republican, and now has three dozen co-sponsors. This legislation would provide effective financial incentives for more businesses and industries to step into the workforce preparation and apprenticeship arena. Specifically, tax credits offered would result in greater private-sector investment in such program areas to address the skills gap since companies would directly reduce their federal tax liability accordingly.

This bill also would provide tax credit incentives that would generate greater scholarship opportunities in K-12 education so that students and parents will have greater options — including, for example, alternative high schools with more career and technical education than traditional public school districts offer; or rather accessing higher quality education that better prepares students to enter an apprenticeship or skill-development program as alternative to traditional college.