Job Skills of the Future in Researchers' Crystal Ball
Views split over guidance to schools on workplace realities down the road.
Economists, researchers, and educators from all over the country recently took turns here looking into a crystal ball with two urgent questions: No. 1, what job skills will employers need in the decades ahead? And, No. 2, are students getting the education they’ll need to be employable?
As with most prognostications, the answers at a research workshop hosted by the prestigious National Academies depended on whom you consulted.
Ask Dixie Sommers, an assistant commissioner for occupational statistics and employment projections at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and she would tell you that, for example, from 2004 to 2014, the employment sector composed of library, training, and teaching jobs is anticipated to add nearly 2 million jobs —a...
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