The Relevance of School to Career: A Study in Student Awareness

Abstract

warned that American students as a whole achieve lower skill levels than students in other industrialized nations. This provocative report summoned a nationwide quest to strengthen public education through a myriad of educational reform initiatives that largely have centered on increasing the rigor of curricula, raising graduation requirements, establishing new learning standards, and assessing outcomes in American schools. There are many who would argue however that a &dquo;more is better&dquo; approach may not be the answer. In an international study which compared the mathematics, science and language arts curricula in ten countries (Daggett, 1994), it was found that, despite the fact that the U.S. imposes more curricular content requirements than other countries, American students finish last in the ability to apply that knowledge to real-world problems. Such findings suggest that our students may not understand the connection between the considerable subject matter they are being taught and how it is used

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