This according to the Obama administration… I am not sure I agree, but enjoy the article, courtesy of CNN.com.
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source: cnn.com
Washington (CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden's wife, Jill Biden, will host the first-ever White House Summit on Community Colleges Tuesday.
President Barack Obama will speak at the opening session of the event designed to "highlight the critical role that community colleges play in developing America's workforce and reaching our educational goals," the White House said.
Biden, who has a doctorate and teaches English full-time at a community college not far from the White House, describes them as "one of America's best-kept secrets," according to her profile on the White House website.
The summit will include a session on the Skills for America's Future initiative, according to the White House statement.
Examples of programs in the new initiative include Pacific Gas and Electric's work with community colleges to develop courses and training for energy jobs, professional literacy courses provided by McDonald's for managers across the country, and a pilot job training program in seven cities by Gap Inc., the statement said.
The summit begins a day after Obama announced an industry-led education initiative intended to ensure that the nation's community college graduates are well-trained for jobs in U.S. industry.
On Monday, Obama told a meeting of his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which includes business and labor leaders, that the Skills for America's Future initiative is a common-sense approach to a broader strategy of improving the ability of U.S. students to compete in the global workforce.
"The idea here is simple -- we want to make it easier to connect students looking for jobs with businesses that will hire them," Obama said in remarks at a board meeting at the White House.
A White House statement said the initiative is based on the same concept as the Educate to Innovate campaign, in which corporations develop specific programs to boost the performance of U.S. students in math, science, technology and engineering.
Obama said a Skills for America's Future task force will coordinate federal efforts with corporate partners in the initiative.
"The goal is to ensure there are strong partnerships between growing industries and community college or training programs in every state in the country," Obama said.
He called community colleges one of the nation's most under-valued assets, and repeated his goal of increasing the number of community college degrees and certificates by 5 million by the year 2020.
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