Graves also makes the point that although American millennials are below average in math and science when compared to their international peers the educational disparities and skills gap among whites and minorities is constantly increasing. The skills gap between whites and minorities millennials is growing because they have access to higher education programs than other groups. For example, the suburban West Bloomfield school district in Michigan schools offer science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs to students from elementary through high school that helps students prepare and practice their quantitative skills in the real world. As a demonstration of how STEM programs are being implemented into white suburban communities
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In the article “Exploring Millennials Student Values and Societal Trends: Accounting Course Selection Preference”, Milliron argues that American student values and expectation for jobs in the future are not realistic with the time that they invest into their education (Milliron). For example, a high percentage of millennials graduate from high school and attend college but often choose to pursue degrees that require a lighter work load than traditional degrees such as business. In other words, millennials that attend college prefer to pursue degrees that do not require hard work such as problem solving and critical thinking. In fact, many millennials students prefer to take college classes with less workload than course with heavier workloads to earn a higher grade and boost their GPA’s. This trend for American millennials has resulted in them not being able to develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills which are two skills that are the most desired by global firms. American millennials put more emphasis on completing college, than actually focusing on absorbing the educational information from their related industry course work. For instance, in the article Milliron compared …show more content…
Job searching skills consist of teaching people how to use job specific search engines to search online job postings and requires people to have access to computers with internet. Traditionally job postings have always been communicated using newspapers, and printed flyers posted around town at various public locations but majority of companies are advertising jobs online only. Although it is assumed that many American millennials have access to the internet and know how to use computers the reality is that they do not know how to use their computers and the internet to search for jobs and advance placement opportunities
In the article “Exploring Millennials Student Values and Societal Trends: Accounting Course Selection Preference”, Milliron argues that American student values and expectation for jobs in the future are not realistic with the time that they invest into their education (Milliron). For example, a high percentage of millennials graduate from high school and attend college but often choose to pursue degrees that require a lighter work load than traditional degrees such as business. In other words, millennials that attend college prefer to pursue degrees that do not require hard work such as problem solving and critical thinking. In fact, many millennials students prefer to take college classes with less workload than course with heavier workloads to earn a higher grade and boost their GPA’s. This trend for American millennials has resulted in them not being able to develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills which are two skills that are the most desired by global firms. American millennials put more emphasis on completing college, than actually focusing on absorbing the educational information from their related industry course work. For instance, in the article Milliron compared …show more content…
Job searching skills consist of teaching people how to use job specific search engines to search online job postings and requires people to have access to computers with internet. Traditionally job postings have always been communicated using newspapers, and printed flyers posted around town at various public locations but majority of companies are advertising jobs online only. Although it is assumed that many American millennials have access to the internet and know how to use computers the reality is that they do not know how to use their computers and the internet to search for jobs and advance placement opportunities