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Protecting American Jobs and Business in Education
By Live Digest on Apr 13, 2007 in 全球化, 国际教育, 教育, 英文文章An article on globalization, education and jobs in America, with a number of recommendations for changes in education to meet the challenge.
Jobs and education are connected at the hip. They have been since the industrial revolution began drawing people from the farms to the cities to train as assembly line workers. Jobs and education are joined today, as our educational system struggles to meet the new demands of the communications age.
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Students from Asia to Europe outperform Americans on tests. Thirty years ago, the U.S. boasted 30 percent of the world’s college students. That figure is now 14 percent. Meanwhile, most other industrialized nations educate their 16-year olds at a college level.
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It’s an acknowledgement that we are in the Google-age where many facts so common to classroom learning are now just a few keystrokes away and may not have to be embedded in gray matter. It recognizes the obvious, that at current pay levels U.S. schools will not attract the number of superior teachers required. It builds on a growing body of evidence that early childhood learning is an essential foundation for what comes next. And it uproots the traditional system of locally managed schools.