Next Steps: Preparing a Quality Workforce

Stephen Coelen, Sevin Rende and Doug Fulton

CCEA Studies from University of Connecticut, Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis

Abstract: Weaknesses of the continuum from high school education into the Connecticut workforce include the following: (1) Too many highly qualified high school students do not go on to college at all; (2) Too many high school students neglect to apply to in-State colleges or are not accepted in the in-State college of their choice; leaving the State, they often remain in their out-of-state community to work; (3) Too many additional students transfer from in-State to Out-of-State colleges during college and these, in great numbers, do not return to Connecticut in their post college years; (4) Too many students, wherever trained, may start in the Connecticut labor market but fail to stay in Connecticut employment for very long; and (5) Too many, starting college, fail to complete college, making college an expensive and uncertain proposition, while improving students' completion rates would promote greater efficiency in the use of student and State resources.

Keywords: high school education; college education; workplace success; CAPT testing; SAT testing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 135 pages
Date: 2008-04
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