Pratt Institute - Manhattan
144 West 14th Street (near several subway stops)
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Authors' Briefing
4:00 - 4:30 pm Q&A and Complimentary Reception
Complimentary copy of the new eBook
RSVP to Tammy at 800-678-5376 or email draves@lern.org
With their classic book, "Nine Shift: Work, life and education in the 21st Century,"
Coates and Draves predicted the 21st Century:
*The decline of suburbs and the rise of cities (BBC Global Business, Feb 21, 2005, aired worldwide)
*The great recession (The New York Times, Jan 6, 2006)
*Gen Y switching from cars to trains (Kiplinger's, Forbes, The Atlantic, Yahoo News, Ad Age, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, and more, October 2010)
*Rise of telework and virtual offices (TED Talk, Nov 2010)
*Gen Y in the workplace (Psychology Today, April 2014)
NOW they solve America's #1 economic and education problem with their boldest prediction of all.
Every year 2.4 smart boys are left out of college.
Males who test at the same level or higher as students in college.
It's created a huge societal problem.
Anthony Carnevale, our nation's leading training expert, says we'll have a shortage of 14 million college educated workers by 2017.
Other nations are racing to get 50% of their young people a four year degree,
while the U.S. lags behind.
With unemployment rate for four year college grads down to 3.9% and still falling, we need more college educated people.
U of California professor Enrico Moretti shows that the percentage of college graduates determines a community's economic prosperity.
There's no way mathematically to increase retention and graduation rates enough unless we accept and graduate millions of smart boys.
