Comments on: No burger flippers left behind http://www.educationfutures.com/2009/03/11/no-burger-flippers-left-behind/ Exploring a New Paradigm in human capital development, driven by accelerating change. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:10:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Terry http://www.educationfutures.com/2009/03/11/no-burger-flippers-left-behind/comment-page-1/#comment-26448 Terry Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:44:05 +0000 http://www.educationfutures.com/?p=1266#comment-26448 I am a burger flipper left behind. I am unemployed, unskilled, over 50, and can't get financial aid for education. How can I get ahead? I am a burger flipper left behind. I am unemployed, unskilled, over 50, and can’t get financial aid for education.

How can I get ahead?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.educationfutures.com/2009/03/11/no-burger-flippers-left-behind/comment-page-1/#comment-25437 Anonymous Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:26:24 +0000 http://www.educationfutures.com/?p=1266#comment-25437 There's some pretty big jumps toward the conclusion of this post. Less foriegn language will cause us to have a deluge of low level workers? Really? So, with an increase in foriegn language training we would eradicate low level jobs? While the main point of the post is to point out that language education has decreased in elementary schools -- elementary schools -- it doesn't follow that this will have any particular outcomes. What have elementary schools gotten better at? What has increased by 40%. Is it only bad? I don't think so. There’s some pretty big jumps toward the conclusion of this post. Less foriegn language will cause us to have a deluge of low level workers? Really? So, with an increase in foriegn language training we would eradicate low level jobs?

While the main point of the post is to point out that language education has decreased in elementary schools — elementary schools — it doesn’t follow that this will have any particular outcomes. What have elementary schools gotten better at? What has increased by 40%. Is it only bad? I don’t think so.

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