Replacing the Internship with the Apprenticeship

The American education system is flawed. Individuals learn at school and later apply that knowledge at work. On-the-job learning is a rare phenomenon. Employers want to recruit the most-skilled – and thus most-expensive – personnel, who move from job to job amassing experience. Due to employers’ preference for the cream of the talent pool, unskilled workers languish with few possibilities for advancement. Meanwhile, although the United States produces 40,000 computer science graduates annually, one million computer programming jobs will be vacant by 2020. Yet 7.9 million Americans are unemployed each year.