The Jetsons cartoon in 1963 depicted our life in the 21st century. Many of the ideas and inventions have come to fruition. Watch the promo here.
For the past 25 years, urban students have been ill prepared for the Jetson Age causing high urban unemployment today as jobs require a technology orientation.
The sad irony the 2009 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index found an overwhelming majority of teens surveyed (85 percent) expressed interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, with “curiosity about the way things work” as the driving factor for their interest (44 percent.).
Roughly two-thirds of African-American teens (64 percent) and teen girls (67 percent) believe they are not being prepared well in school for these careers.
Improve employable skills of thinking and technology
Send MORE urban students to college.
College and career preparation exposes individuals to opportunities generating heightened expectations. Heightened expectations increase community demands for college preparatory schools for all students and not just the talented tenth.
Help us expand school, community and employment expectations!
