Americas Hidden Economic Engines How Community Colleges Can Drive Shared Prosperity Robert B Schwartz by Robert B. Schwartz 9781682538166, 9781682538173, 1682538168, 1682538176 instant download after payment.

Five in-depth case studies reveal the innovative practices that position U.S. community colleges as pathways to quality employment.
In America's Hidden Economic Engines, editors Robert B. Schwartz and Rachel Lipson spotlight community and technical colleges as institutions uniquely equipped to foster more equitable economic growth across America's regions. As Schwartz and Lipson show, these colleges are the best-placed institutions to reverse the decades-long rise in US economic inequality by race, class, and geography.
In the book, Harvard Project on Workforce researchers introduce detailed case studies of five institutions—Lorain County Community College in Ohio, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Northern Virginia Community College, Pima Community College in Arizona, and San Jacinto Community College in Texas—that show what is possible when governments, employers, and communities invest in their community colleges'...