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Should Entrepreneurship Be Taught in U.S. High Schools?

  • 1.  Should Entrepreneurship Be Taught in U.S. High Schools?

    Posted 06-06-2012 17:56
    Dear Entrepreneurship Friends,
     
    If you get a chance, please read the article by Steve Mariotti in Time Magazine on June 1. The title of the article is,
    "Why Every School in America Should Teach Entreprneurship." The article can be found here: http://business.time.com/contributor/steve-mariotti/.
     
    Steve, founder of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), was the keynote speaker at the SAGE World Cup in Buffalo last summer (see http://sageglobal.org; I am the SAGE Founder). I have invited Steve to once again be a luncheon speaker at the SAGE World Cup 2012 event in San Francisco on July 29 or 30. He indicated that he will try to clear his schedule for us. 
     
    He is a leader in the area of youth enterprise, and on this topic (like most others), he and I are in complete agreement.  When youth have a proper context to apply math, technology, communication, and yes, even science, skills, they are unbelievably motivated and enthused.
     
    Last week, I saw an article that the Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria is making entrepreneurship education mandatory in all of its secondary schools. http://allafrica.com/stories/201205180575.html
     
    Should the U.S. do the same?  After all, the #1 degree at U.S. universities is BUSINESS. What are your thoughts?
     
    Sincerely,
     
    Curt DeBerg
    SAGE Founder
    Professor, California State University, Chico
     
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