Green shoots: Rethinking Shop Class

We don't need communications specialists or business studies graduates. The ability to use a screwdriver counts for a lot, argues leonard Greene.

We've been hearing much talk in the U.S., lately, of the need to launch another national public works initiative similar to those Franklin Roosevelt established in the 1930s. Only any new such programme would, say proponents, offer "green jobs" to ease staggering unemployment. 

The theory — that direct public employment can create millions of jobs at relatively low cost —seems sound. Spend a few billion dollars, rebuild aging infrastructure, clean up the . . .