{"id":678,"date":"2011-03-10T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T14:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=678"},"modified":"2011-03-10T10:15:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T14:15:22","slug":"i-dont-understand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"I don’t understand"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama while touring a Boston school with Melinda Gates made the following comment: <\/p>\n

There is no better economic policy than one that produces more graduates with the skills necessary to succeed.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This idea emerges from a long tradition of linking education to jobs. Nothing new there. And maybe the President is embracing one of the few rhetorical strategies that works around education. You can’t win a public argument challenging the connection between jobs and a good education. <\/p>\n

My issue, though, is with the assumption that skills will somehow shift labor markets, as if, in a global economy, the number of well-prepared graduates has a major impact on where the jobs are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Obama while touring a Boston school with Melinda Gates made the following comment: There is no better economic policy than one that produces more graduates with the skills necessary to succeed. This idea emerges from a long tradition of linking education to jobs. Nothing new there. And maybe the President is embracing one of … Continue reading I don’t understand<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-aW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}