Op-Ed | May 19, 2016

Deeper Learning Can Fight Skills Gap

ReadyNation member Bob Esch discusses the importance of deeper learning, practical education, and career technical education

ReadyNation member Bob Esch discusses the importance of deeper learning, practical education, and career technical education in closing the looming skills gap faced by Pennsylvania and the nation as a whole in this op­-ed in the Bradford Era.

Deeper learning can help build the “executive­ functioning” skills employers value, which will make for a stronger workforce that can meet the demands of the modern job market, particularly in growing sectors like STEM professions.

Deeper learning gives students real­ world know­-how through practical, work­-based experiences, and project­-based learning that create classroom connections to the workplace.

Bob Esch