Former Labor Secretary Tells Career Colleges to Teach 'the Right Skills'

Colleges must be sure they are teaching "the right skills," says Robert B. Reich, U.S. secretary of labor in the Clinton administration.

He offered a pep talk this month about the value of skills-focused education to the owners and managers of for-profit colleges at the annual meeting of the Career College Association.

"The new middle class in the United States is going to depend inordinately on technological careers" because of the changes in the economy being brought on by

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