RE: Question 1: School to work

Even though there is growing demand for high-skilled tech-savvy workers, let's remember that a substantial portion of jobs today pay minimum wage or not much more.  The California Budget Project predicts that  most new jobs in the coming decade will pay less than $10 per hour.

How will the Master Plan use education to prepare children to face this reality?  I could see a couple of options:

1.  Tell children that only the best students will be successful, while the rest will end up as losers stuck in low-paying jobs; or

2.  Tell children that every job represents some kind of meaningful work that has value to society, and train them in labor organizing based on democratic and collaborative principles, so that whoever takes a low-wage job for whatever reason will be able to join co-workers and collectively raise their salary and improve working conditions. 

I vote for #2.  #1 is poison.  The play, "Death of a Salesman" goes to the heart of how we define success, as you'll note from my posting under 'Introduction'.