For years, education has talked about College and Career Readiness. The phrase is so familiar that most of us probably no longer notice the order. College. Then career. What if we flipped it? Career and College Readiness. At first, that may sound like semantics. I do not think it is. The order of our words often reveals the order of our thinking. For decades, we have increasingly treated college as the expected pathway after high school. In many communities, the question is n
