Dana Goldstein examines Schooling in the Workplace by Nancy Hoffman:
[Hoffman] argues the United States should adopt a Swiss-style vocational education system, in which students in their last two years of high school have the option of participating in highly structured workplace apprenticeships, working for pay several days per week and spending the rest of the time in the classroom.
Dana asked Hoffman if she found it disturbing that the apprenticeships would be mostly for the working class. Her answer:
I would much rather have a 3 percent youth unemployment rate and most young people having a job, than have the bifurcated system we have in the United States, [in which some kids go to four-year college, and the rest face a 22 percent unemployment rate].
The Dish 