How Dual-Track Education Could Help Students Gear Up for the Digital Economy

"Apprenticeships – long embraced as a work-force-training method in other countries – may now have an opening to become a far more common pathway to education and employment in the United States."

A few weeks ago I read a very interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, – Why Colleges Need to Embrace the Apprenticeship. The article raised a number of important questions on the future of college education, in particular, the value of an education that combines formal schooling with real-world practical experience, often referred to as a dual-track educational system.

By Irving Wladawsky-Berger

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