The McKinsey Global Institute estimates there will be a shortage of 1.5 million college graduates by 2020. These current trends guarantee that the United States will not have enough workers with the education level required for emerging 21st Century jobs. Your support of this microproject will allow more than 300 students in the Dallas area to learn the essential work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy skills that will allow them to own their economic success!
Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist argues that the goal of education should be to make every child "innovation ready." "Today, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know," he says. "The capacity to innovate--the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life--is far more important." The Corporate Voices for Working Families Workforce Readiness Survey showed 97% of business leaders are deeply concerned about the future workforce.
Of the business leaders surveyed, 97% agreed that their organization considers workforce readiness a business imperative. With so many business leaders considering workforce readiness an imperative, it is critical that we expand students' horizons by bridging the gap between the corporate sector and our community's schools by allowing business professionals to provide Junior Achievement curriculum in the classroom.
With your support, more than 300 students will be one step closer to being successful and contributing members of society, inspired to make smart academic and economic choices through Junior Achievement programs. Your support of these students will ensure they are workforce ready and empowered with the entrepreneurial spirit so critical to the 21st Century.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
