The technological advances of the 21st century, while beneficial to our quality of life have influenced changes to educational requirements in every occupation. As the United States becomes more dependent on highly educated professionals for every sector of the economy; technology, retail, healthcare, farming, etc., future education reform needs to include a plan to educate citizens who can maintain and grow the increasing complex civic infrastructure. To guarantee our communities can address the current and future demands of the 21st century and ensure that the next generation of highly educated professionals come from within our United States borders, all US citizens must believe they have access to the education and training needed for
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The need for extensive, complicated research, financial disclosure, supporting documentation, essay’s and other paperwork are often perceived as a barrier to admission; thereby undermining our ability to recruit the brightest, high ability individuals to professional programs. Eradicating restrictive complicated entrance requirements based on financial capacity and references and instead welcoming all citizens who want to improve their ability to contribute to the greater community, ensures high ability individuals will be included among the many student candidates. While this “no child left behind” approach does not guarantee all citizens will be successful in achieving their ultimate academic goal; it does ensure that high performing individuals are identified and groomed to their highest natural …show more content…
As the population of unskilled non-professionals increases; their cumulative wages decline and this has a negative impact on the economy. To ensure this population of workers stay motivated, engaged, productive member of the community, they too should have unrestricted access to higher education so they can assume the higher level professional positions that are needed. Providing dislocated factory workers with access to education in engineering, technology, etc. ensures US citizens will have the skill set to develop, manufacture and maintain computerized factory automation within the United States thereby limiting our nation’s dependency on importing educated skilled immigrants from other
The need for extensive, complicated research, financial disclosure, supporting documentation, essay’s and other paperwork are often perceived as a barrier to admission; thereby undermining our ability to recruit the brightest, high ability individuals to professional programs. Eradicating restrictive complicated entrance requirements based on financial capacity and references and instead welcoming all citizens who want to improve their ability to contribute to the greater community, ensures high ability individuals will be included among the many student candidates. While this “no child left behind” approach does not guarantee all citizens will be successful in achieving their ultimate academic goal; it does ensure that high performing individuals are identified and groomed to their highest natural …show more content…
As the population of unskilled non-professionals increases; their cumulative wages decline and this has a negative impact on the economy. To ensure this population of workers stay motivated, engaged, productive member of the community, they too should have unrestricted access to higher education so they can assume the higher level professional positions that are needed. Providing dislocated factory workers with access to education in engineering, technology, etc. ensures US citizens will have the skill set to develop, manufacture and maintain computerized factory automation within the United States thereby limiting our nation’s dependency on importing educated skilled immigrants from other