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Get ready for tough choices or tough times, educators warn
Get ready for tough choices or tough times, educators warn
Tough Choices or Tough Times is not recommended reading for bedtime, if youre hoping for a good nights sleep.
The 26-member Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has produced a new report on the skills of the American workforce, updating its 1990 report in which a wakeup call was issued amid the emerging trend of economic globalization. This new 2006 report is no jargon-laden bureaucratic screed, but a plainspoken and urgent proposal for a top-to-bottom reworking of the American education system unlike any weve undertaken since the dawn of the Industrial Age. And it is not for the faint of heart.
Either we do a much better job of giving our young people the world-class skills and knowledge they need to compete in a swiftly integrating world economy, or we condemn them to working ever longer hours for ever lower pay, is the blunt message of Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy and vice chairman of the private, nonpartisan commission. The new report doesnt shirk from issuing the daunting challenge to completely revamp our nations workforce education and training systems – and do it without delay.
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