RSS
In the years ahead, economic competitiveness will depend on the pool of talent within a region. The deeper the pool, the brighter the prospects. Educational attainment, promoting the idea that education must continue past high school, will represent one of the key metrics defining the competitiveness of a community or region.
All this is relatively new to EDPros. To introduce these topics, I will be picking examples from around the country of initiatives designed to promote talent development. EDPro's need to become familiar with these initiatives. We need to understand the different dimensions of the education of workforce development systems operating within our communities and regions.
When it comes to career guidance counseling, South Carolina appears to be one of the states to watch. Across the country, career guidance counseling is in a shambles. In many communities, it is not uncommon to see one guidance counselor at a high school handling a caseload of between 200 and 300 students. In these situations, the counselor can only focus on the best students moving toward a four year college career. Other students are left to face more complex career choices largely on their own.
The Career Pathways initiative is part of South Carolina's Education and Economic Development Act, passed in 2005. The Pathways initiative requires students in high school to clear a career major for course of study in one of 16 career clusters. You can read more about the initiative here.
The dig deeper, you can visit the Career Pathways web site here.
Comments
Hide comments
