One of the things I appreciated, only after graduating college graduation, was that my school employed professors, who had real world experience. I cannot tell you how many times we heard a professor say, Okay, thats what the textbook tells you. Now, let me tell you how it works in the real world.
Textbooks only give students a foundation on which to build later in a real job. Often times, the real world does not follow the procedures set forth in or look/act anything like those models in the textbooks, making it difficult to adjust. You expect one thing in a new job but discover another, feeling lost as to how to proceed.
The Florida Schools in partnership with the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) are introducing some of the real world into the Florida schools. Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, high school students in the Florida schools will be able to sign up for a major course in entrepreneurship at participating schools.
In June 2006, then governor Jeb Bush signed the A++ Education Act, which offers 442 additional major coursework in the Florida schools. The entrepreneurship course is one of these...