RE: Workforce Preparation Missing in Action

Our goal in K-12 should be to prepare our students for the work force and in a comprehensive manner that facilitates entry to the work force, trade and techniacal schools, and or the CSU/UC systems.  This prevent "tracking" or our students into programs of study that preclude this flexibility in direction.

Recent efforts on the part of the Instutions of Higher Education to bring their subject area courses into allingment with K-12 content standards and language will be highly helpful in this endeavor.

I was ill-prepared to college, coming from a very rural school system in California, a two year technical program gave me a start in my career.

Also, the Cal Poly campuses (I am a grad of Cal Poly SLO) and their wonderful "learn by doing" and "upside down curriculum" where students begin studying their major from the start (not just the last two years of college) provides a wonderful entree into higher education.

We need to be far more "hands on learing" in our approaches to both K-12 and higher education