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Tamara Jacoby reports at the\u00a0Atlantic<\/a> on the important role that apprenticeship or \u201cdual training\u201d (classroom and on-the-job) programs play in equipping European workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She acknowledges that the US has its own tradition of apprenticeship, but adds: \u201clike most kinds of vocational education, it fell out of fashion in recent decades\u2014a victim of our obsession with college and concern to avoid anything that resembles tracking. Today in America, fewer than 5 percent of young people train as apprentices, the overwhelming majority in the construction trades. In Germany, the number is closer to 60 percent\u2014in fields as diverse as advanced manufacturing, IT, banking, and hospitality.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the US, apprenticeships are for kids who couldn\u2019t make it in college, but in Germany \u201cThe employer and the employee still respect practical work. German firms don\u2019t view dual training as something for struggling students or at-risk youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Germany, apprenticeships depend on young people making early choices about career tracks, and also depends on a centralized, state-run education and job-training.\u00a0Neither of those is likely to fly in America, but that doesn\u2019t prevent US companies from initiating their own apprenticeship programs, and many have.<\/p>\n

What Jacoby calls the \u201cbiggest\u201d obstacle to apprenticeship isn\u2019t structural or political but cultural: \u201cAmerican attitudes toward practical skills and what Germans still unabashedly call \u2018blue-collar\u2019 work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"