Author: Joel I. Klein
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN: 087609521X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.
U.S. Education Reform and National Security
Author: Joel I. Klein
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN: 087609521X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN: 087609521X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.
Education Task Force Report
Author: Minnesota. Governor's Loaned Executives Action Program. Education Task Force
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Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Primary Education Task Force Report
Author: Teaneck (N.J.). Board of Education. Primary education task force report
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Category : Education, Elementary
Languages : en
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Category : Education, Elementary
Languages : en
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Community Education Task Force Report
Author: Rockford Board of Education (Ill.). Community Education Task Force
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Category : Public schools
Languages : en
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Category : Public schools
Languages : en
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Community Education Task Force Report
Author: Community Education Task Force
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Category : Community schools
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Community schools
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The Core Data Task Force Report
Author: National Forum on Education Statistics (U.S.). Core Data Task Force
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Education Planning Task Force Report
Author: Haile Sellassie I University. Education Planning Task Force
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Category : Teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category : Teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Education Task Force Final Report
Author: Phoenix Futures Forum. Education Task Force
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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Final Report of the Task Force on Organization and Structure
Author: Wisconsin. Governor's Commission on Education. Task Force on Organization and Structure
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Report of the Continuing Education Task Force
Author: University of Cincinnati. Continuing Education Task Force
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Category : Continuing education
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Category : Continuing education
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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