Community Colleges Needed To Fill The Skills Gap

It was when I posed that question to Chertavian that he started talking about community colleges. He is a fierce believer in their transformative potential. All the students in Year Up are also required to be enrolled in a local community college, but, more recently, Chertavian has begun to affiliate more formally with community colleges.  Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education. Now with the skills gap such a pressing problem — and a high school education so clearly inadequate for the modern economy — the task of teaching those skills is falling to community colleges.  Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/opinion/nocera-filling-the-skills-gap.html?src=recg