the highly dubious notion that college and career skills are the same. On its face, the idea is absurd. After all, do chefs, policemen, welders, hotel managers, professional baseball players and health technicians all require college skills for their careers? Do college students all require learning occupational skills in a wide array of careers?
No, that is not Bryan Caplan. It is Robert Lerman. Read the whole thing.
Yet, a stunning finding produced by Northeastern University sociologist Michael Handel (cited in a recent Atlantic blog) indicates that only 9 percent of the work force ever use this knowledge, and less than 20 percent of managerial, professional, or technical workers report using any algebra II material.
I’ve been saying this for years. It is amazing how many of those in school and academia are completely clueless about how useless their curricula are. This is why online learning will destroy the schools and universities fairly quickly.