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ProQuest Platform Activity:
Financial Literacy & 21st Century Literacy and Skills
The current global financial crisis in housing, investing, and in credit card debt are glaring examples of both the financial industry ethics violations and the gross lack of financial literacy by consumers.
Just what knowledge and skills do consumers need to navigate the financial challenges that they will face all of their lives? When is the right time to learn financial literacy? What part do our schools play in this initiative?
Essential questions like these are a necessary part of any learning activity to help learners integrate critical thinking and original thought into reports on this topic. Without essential questions for critical thinking, most students will report facts from a single article and most reports on a topic will be very similar or identical--plagiarism.
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ProQuest Career & Tech Focus:
Global Competitiveness via Career & Technical Education
The new awareness and respect for of the importance of career and technical education is growing in many schools and businesses. This is the result of the last decade of the outsourcing of U.S. jobs by companies to workers in other countries and the increase in the number of job-related visas to import foreign workers.
Many of these actions were necessary to fill jobs that are technology related because an insufficient number of American workers don't have the required skills to do this technical work. If America is to stay competitive in the global economy, business leaders must support more career and technical education initiatives.
Teachers and students will need to have access to the most current information on a variety of career and technical fields. ProQuest Career and Technical is an excellent source of information for high schools and community colleges that offer technical courses.
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