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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.

And, here is another article about Traditional media and blogging.

Here is a good reference article on Good Blog Writing Style. The major points are listed here and you can find more on the original post:

1. Use descriptive headlines that reveal the point of the article without further reading; the key here is to create microcontent that can fare well on its own.
2. Write in inverted pyramid style
3. The first link is the one most people click on, so it should also be the main link for your article.
4. In each longer post, re-introduce core ideas you mention.
5. Use lists, images, tables, sub-headlines, examples, indented notes, indented quotes, icons, colors, bold and italics to lighten up your article and make it easier to scan it.
6. With a global audience it’s never a good idea to only use sophisticated words not everyone may know.
7. Credit your sources with a mention and link.
8. Mark updates and changes (and do update and change when readers find something wrong in your writing).
9. Spellcheck your posts, and read them for clarity once or twice before posting.
10. To practically all of these rules there are exceptions.