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For others, the problem points to the need to develop alternative forms of job training for people who aren’t academically inclined and are unlikely to finish college.
“We’re telling kids you’ll be a third-class citizen if you don’t go to college,” said Marty Nemko, an education policy consultant and author. “And colleges are taking kids who in previous generations would not have gone to college.”
Nemko favors an apprenticeship program similar to those offered in Finland, Japan and Germany.
