Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century By Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston.
Katherine holds holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Sociology from the University of California, San Diego and a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Today Katherine is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of California. She was formerly the Provost of UMass Amherst and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, professor at Princeton University and Harvard University, and professor of anthropology at Columbia University.
Hella was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, The Johns Hopkins University, and Princeton University. Today she is pursuing her Ph.D. in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a Senior Fellow at Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.
The book begins with a certainly sobering assessment of the current state of American secondary education. They highlight misguided policies that have driven economic inequalities for decades.