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KXO News Education Center Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce Reconvenes To Address New Challenges Todays is : Friday, 21 November 2008
| Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce Reconvenes To Address New Challenges |
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| Written by KXO News Team | |
| Sunday, 17 December 2006 | |
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) announced that it has re-established the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. The first bipartisan, blue-ribbon panel by that name issued the landmark 1990 report, “America’s Choice: high skills or low wages!,” which helped launch the standards movement in the United States and led to major state and Federal legislation. The New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce will address the implications of how the dramatic changes in the U.S. and global economies that have occurred during the past decade have affected education in this country. While the original group concluded that America could continue to enjoy a high standard of living only if it abandoned low-skill work to low-cost countries, the United States is now being challenged by countries like China and India that are producing large numbers of highly educated people willing to work for relatively low wages. The new Commission was formed to consider how American education will have to change to prevent a decline in our standard of living in this situation. Members of the commission include former governors, senators, cabinet secretaries, business and labor leaders, civil rights leaders and education and job training experts. “In a global economy where companies can get the highest skills at the lowest wages, the United States’ standard of living can be maintained only if we do a far better job of educating our citizens,” said Commission Chair Charles Knapp. “The Commission’s challenge is to figure out how to improve the performance of the American education system with little or no increase in cost. That is a formidable challenge, but we cannot afford to fail.” “The fact that other nations are outperforming the United States in education is both a threat and an opportunity,” according to Marc Tucker, Commission Vice-Chairman and Staff Director. “The threat is the real possibility of a significant decline in our standard of living. The opportunity is the chance to learn from them by studying the world’s most effective education systems, gleaning the lessons we need to exceed their performance.” The Commission’s work, which is being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will conclude with a final report in the next six months. Following the 1990 release of the original report “America’s Choice: high skills or low wages!,” the Clinton and (first) Bush Administrations, Congress and several state governments adopted a series of measures that implemented nearly all its major recommendations. |
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