Tham khảo tài liệu 'kaplan toefl ibt fourth edition part 35', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 250 I TOEFL iBT Put simply the changes in the workplace required a change in the preparation of workers. Now free public schools for elementary education had been established early on in the colonial era. Yet the means for training people to work in the nation s expanding factories as we said didn t exist. To us now combining technical with academic courses in the schools seems like an obvious option but for reasons we ll get into shortly this was not seriously explored until the late 1800s. So separately from the system of public education technical societies of mechanics and tradesmen precursors of today s unions formed what were called mechanics institutes. These mechanics schools provided technical training in a particular trade as well as basic education in reading mathematics and other subjects. At the same time as these technical societies were opening their mechanics schools businesses began realizing the importance of training workers not just tor general trades but for factory-specific jobs. And so you get in the late 19th century the opening of factory schools that is. training classes that were held on company grounds. By the turn of the 20th century several of the nation s major corporations companies like Westinghouse General Electric Goodyear had their own factory schools. And these schools became the precursors of todays corporate training departments. Now even though privately sponsored technical training was popular there was strong resistance to the integration of technical training within the public schools. Opposition came from educators who were concerned that technical training would lower academic standards and who felt that moral raining and instruction in the basic subjects would provide the best preparation of students lor the outside world. Simultaneously however the public schools were coming under increasing criticism from people who felt that public school education lacked relevance. It wasn t until the late 19th century that several
