You mean like the Founding Fathers who cobble together 13 colonies into a federal government to speak with one voice to the word, set the laws and decide court cases for the entire country?
We need kids who know the law, who understand finance, who will become actual citizens.
We need kids who will become carpenters, electricians, plumbers and other skilled trade workers. Construction is facing a critical shortage of workers as the foreign-born workers went home after the Great Recession, others got jobs in different industries, and most will retire in the years to come. We don't need more lawyers or Wall Street finance guys. We need people who can rebuild America.
Somebody tell Rahm that quite soon most software will be written by software.
Like the early text editors that wrote mangled HTML code? If you knew HTML and CSS in the late 1990's, you could wade through the source code to manually fix those misbehaving table cells. Tweny years later, I still write HTML code by hand. I even write Python scripts that write HTML template code. Just because software is written by other software, you still need to know how software works when things go horribly wrong.
We got kids training for the Olympics who do that in addition to being a regular student. Unlike regular students, they get up at 4:30AM to start their day.
When I worked on the Google help desk in 2008, I had to walk a newly hired Stanford software engineer through the process of turning on his computer. That shocked him. He expected to arrive at a university-style computer lab where someone would turn on the computers for him. Surprising how many software engineers don't know their way around a modern computer as an ordinary user.
When I skipped high school to get an associate degree from the community college, I had trouble getting level-entry jobs for the first five years after graduation because I didn't have a high school diploma. Never mind that an associate degree ranks higher than a high school diploma. Once I got hired by a Fortune 500 company through a roommate, the high school diploma became less relevant and experience became more important to my tech career.
Not to mention....the education system should NOT be in the hands of the Feds to dictate what the states teach.
What part of United States don't you understand? Someone has to set the educational standards for the entire country. We can't have 50 states marching to a different drummer, especially when we have a political culture that values ignorance over intelligence.
I'd sure hate to be in a programming class where most of the students were only there because Rahm Emmanuel forced them to be.
I went back to community college to learn computer programming after the Dot Com Bust. Many students in the computer and networking classes were there because computers was the money-major of the day. One of my instructors tried to get a 75-year-old Vietnamese couple to reconsider their major, as no company would ever hire them. When health care became the new money-major of the day, the computer and network classes were abandoned in droves. Even the elderly couple changed their major to health care.
After you get your A+ certification, you need to get your Network+ certification. As baby boomers retire over the next 20 years, there will be a critical shortage of I.T. workers in the United States.
Let's be perfectly clear here: If you get a highschool diploma, and stop your education... you will not be programming computers.
If you don't have a college degree, you probably won't get a job at all. Many jobs that previously required a high school diploma noq require a college degree. Never mind that the actual work may not have changed.
Hipsters who don't want to commute more than 30 minutes from San Francisco. Recruiters are offering higher pay rates for hipsters to work in Silicon Valley that's 45- to 90-minutes away.
I was a spaghetti cook and made minimum wage ($5/hr) for three years after college before I got my first tech job that doubled my income ($10/hr). Flipping burgers doesn't have to be a permanent condition.
$15/hr minimum wage means McDonalds can afford that burger robot to replace half their employees.
Is that a bad thing? An illegal worker with a leaf blower can clean up a large campus by himself, replacing a crew of 20 American workers with rakes and booms.
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Automation will help as the baby boomers retire and the work force shrinks in the next 20 years.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
You need a refresher course on how an idea become a law. It's called democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FFroMQlKiag
You mean like the Founding Fathers who cobble together 13 colonies into a federal government to speak with one voice to the word, set the laws and decide court cases for the entire country?
We need kids who know the law, who understand finance, who will become actual citizens.
We need kids who will become carpenters, electricians, plumbers and other skilled trade workers. Construction is facing a critical shortage of workers as the foreign-born workers went home after the Great Recession, others got jobs in different industries, and most will retire in the years to come. We don't need more lawyers or Wall Street finance guys. We need people who can rebuild America.
Somebody tell Rahm that quite soon most software will be written by software.
Like the early text editors that wrote mangled HTML code? If you knew HTML and CSS in the late 1990's, you could wade through the source code to manually fix those misbehaving table cells. Tweny years later, I still write HTML code by hand. I even write Python scripts that write HTML template code. Just because software is written by other software, you still need to know how software works when things go horribly wrong.
We got kids training for the Olympics who do that in addition to being a regular student. Unlike regular students, they get up at 4:30AM to start their day.
When I worked on the Google help desk in 2008, I had to walk a newly hired Stanford software engineer through the process of turning on his computer. That shocked him. He expected to arrive at a university-style computer lab where someone would turn on the computers for him. Surprising how many software engineers don't know their way around a modern computer as an ordinary user.
When I skipped high school to get an associate degree from the community college, I had trouble getting level-entry jobs for the first five years after graduation because I didn't have a high school diploma. Never mind that an associate degree ranks higher than a high school diploma. Once I got hired by a Fortune 500 company through a roommate, the high school diploma became less relevant and experience became more important to my tech career.
Not to mention....the education system should NOT be in the hands of the Feds to dictate what the states teach.
What part of United States don't you understand? Someone has to set the educational standards for the entire country. We can't have 50 states marching to a different drummer, especially when we have a political culture that values ignorance over intelligence.
http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/corporate_careers/training_and_development/hamburger_university.html
I'd sure hate to be in a programming class where most of the students were only there because Rahm Emmanuel forced them to be.
I went back to community college to learn computer programming after the Dot Com Bust. Many students in the computer and networking classes were there because computers was the money-major of the day. One of my instructors tried to get a 75-year-old Vietnamese couple to reconsider their major, as no company would ever hire them. When health care became the new money-major of the day, the computer and network classes were abandoned in droves. Even the elderly couple changed their major to health care.
After you get your A+ certification, you need to get your Network+ certification. As baby boomers retire over the next 20 years, there will be a critical shortage of I.T. workers in the United States.
Let's be perfectly clear here: If you get a highschool diploma, and stop your education ... you will not be programming computers.
If you don't have a college degree, you probably won't get a job at all. Many jobs that previously required a high school diploma noq require a college degree. Never mind that the actual work may not have changed.
Bored /. editors who weren't able to find another "more women in coding" story, slaps up another "more programming in education" story.
Tomorrow's scope: VW engineers screwed the pooch (again).
It's the Black Drone Express. Dropping a box of hard drives in the front yard gave it away.
You obviously don't appreciate the once in a life time luxury item.
Fail. The standard HR request is five years of experience in a technology that came out six months ago.
You have obviously never eaten a $100 hamburger.
Hipsters who don't want to commute more than 30 minutes from San Francisco. Recruiters are offering higher pay rates for hipsters to work in Silicon Valley that's 45- to 90-minutes away.
The marketing people I know are pathological liars. They can do the same job as a sociopath or psychopath just as well.
I was a spaghetti cook and made minimum wage ($5/hr) for three years after college before I got my first tech job that doubled my income ($10/hr). Flipping burgers doesn't have to be a permanent condition.
Never mind that San Francisco is in the middle of an earthquake zone and the flight paths of three busy international airports.
$15/hr minimum wage means McDonalds can afford that burger robot to replace half their employees.
Is that a bad thing? An illegal worker with a leaf blower can clean up a large campus by himself, replacing a crew of 20 American workers with rakes and booms.
Most marketing folks are pathological liars.