Getting skilled: A guide to private trade and technical schools

In today’s tight job market, skilled workers are the ones in demand. Authors Coyne and Hebert spent two and a half years investigating the private trade and technical schools that offer skill training, and they asked all the hard questions!

Their detailed report—based on interviews with students and parents; recent graduates; school owners and salesmen; the Federal Trade commission and Better business Bureau—is reassuring: proprietary schools deliver on their promises.