The Divergent Roads to Post-Secondary Success

[...]America is a very different country today While apprentices have increased in number over the past generation, their proportion of the U.S. workforce (0.32 percent) is lower than it stood after World War II and only at one-eighth the current level in the UK and Australia. Originally, American colleges like Harvard and Yale were schools for training clergy. While there are millions of great jobs that are purportedly entry level, more than 40 percent of college graduates find themselves underemployed, and student-loan forgiveness has become the dominant higher-education policy debate. America needs more apprenticeships now than ever before-not only for recent high school graduates but for high school students and graduates of community colleges, four-year colleges, and even graduate programs. Because we've done comparatively little in this country to grow apprenticeships beyond their cozy home in construction.