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STEM Teachers: The Other Skills Gap

We discuss the skills gap on the blog fairly often, and that’s because the shortage of skilled workers to fill manufacturing positions across the country is a tremendously important inhibitor to manufacturing growth. However, there’s another skills gap that isn’t discussed as frequently, and that is the teacher skills gap. As programs to develop the […]

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Behind the Brand Talks “Work Smart, Not Hard” With Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe is a guy we’ve talked about before. Mike is a great source of information on manufacturing, and his work to combat the skills gap is very much appreciated by the manufacturing community. With the mikeroweWORKS foundation, he’s combating the “Work Smart, Not Hard” mantra that permeates so much of the conversation about education these […]