Sentences with phrase «sound academic preparation»

Clifford Adelman, a researcher whose work for the U.S. Department of Education in the late 1990s helped shape the field's thinking about what constitutes sound academic preparation for college, says that although occupational certificates are becoming «the new currency» in the push for more postsecondary education, the value of many certificates is questionable because of a lack of consensus on the competencies required to earn them.