aims to create a curriculum that will lead to good jobs and solid careers in US manufacturing

That is some grade-A gobbledygook. It takes about a week to train a factory worker, that's the point of the assembly line. What could their curriculum possibly do to facilitate that?

Without pissing off the sub-80s by making students actually show up and follow instructions, which they'll never do.

pretty sure the american federeeeetion of teachers believes that man came from apelike creatures.