I just got around to Monday's optimistically-titled NYT article, ?Glimmers of Hope for Grads.? (The web page header is ?Job Prospects Improve Slightly for Graduates? ? maybe that one ended up in the print version). In any event, one of the stats really stuck out to me:
?51 percent of college graduates under age 25 [are] working in jobs that require college educations, down from 59 percent in 2000. ?
Compounding that with our dropout problems, and the picture is even bleaker: only one in four entering college freshmen can expect to have a job for which a degree is necessary by the time they turn 25. And this number is going down, not up. A stark reminder that graduating from high school ?college and career ready? is but one milestone in the journey to gainful employment.
-Mickey Muldoon