Market Watch: Education Summit

Terry Eberle & Cindy McCurry-RossThe News-Press Media Group

Today’s education Tomorrow’s workforce

• Research• Data • Interviews• Survey

The future workforce

“Not only are we trying to prepare students for jobs that we don’t know will

exist, but we are trying to teach them how to solve problems we don’t even know

exist yet.”

Pat Riley, Executive Director, The Alliance of Educational Leaders

• Biomedical engineers• Network and data analysts• Financial examiners• Athletic trainers• Computer app engineers• Technicians• Dental hygienists• Health care workers• Systems and data analysts

Jobs of the future

The U.S. is falling behind globally

READING RANK COUNTRY

1 Shanghai-China

2 Korea

3 Finland

4 Hong Kong-China

5 Singapore

14 United States

The United States ranks: •14th in reading•17th in science•25th in math

Program for International Student Assessment

Florida vs. U.S.

ACT: 48 of 50•23 of 26 with participation of 60 percent or higher

SAT: 46 of 50•15 of 20 with participation of 60 percent or higher

Southwest Florida: mediocre middle

ACT SAT

Charlotte: 11 15

Collier: 28 36

Glades: 60 53

Hendry: 57 50

Lee: 40 35

Rank among 67 Florida counties

Our K-12 students are not prepared

How would you rate local high school graduatesin terms of fulfilling your workforce needs?

Our students aren’t ready for college

“We get people from the K-12 system who lack the basic abilities. Their

mathematical abilities are atrocious. Their ability to read for comprehension

and their communication skills are bad.”

Stephen Calabro, President of Southwest Florida College

Our college grads are ready for work

How would you rate the graduates of local colleges and universities in terms of fulfilling your future

workforce needs?

Four urgent needs

1. Reading

2. STEM

3. Close the gap

4. Critical thinking

Why can’t sophomores read?

10th graders who don’t read at grade level:

Charlotte: 59%Collier: 60%Glades: 75%Hendry: 76%Lee: 62%State: 61%

STEM11th graders at grade level for science:

Charlotte: 41%Collier: 37%Glades: 37%Hendry: 29%Lee: 35%State: 40%

Close the achievement gap

% of 10th graders reading at grade level

  White Black Hispanic Charlotte 43 28 33 Collier 56 17 27 Glades 36 15 18 Hendry 33 13 20 Lee 47 17 30 State 50 19 35

Aggressive, innovative action makes a difference

Teach them to think, problem solve

and navigate the real world.

Too much testing?

“The time left to actually educate students, to teach them to reason and comprehend, is less and less each year.”

Sandra Andrews, Bonita Springs Middle School teacher

Whatever happened to field trips?

Get our students out …

And

… and our community in.

The talent gap

By 2015, Florida will be short about 100,000 science and technology workers.

The time is now …

… the future is in our hands.