How to keep America’s education edge. "Tough Choices or Tough Times"

For the first time in US history, the next generation of Americans may be less educated than the previous one. That’s just one warning from a panel of experts in a must-read report released Thursday that calls for a root-and-branch overhaul of public schools.

The report, called "Tough Choices or Tough Times," from the The National Center on Education and the Economyhttp://www.ncee.org cites worrisome trends for the US in failing to meet the competition for high-level skills coming from Asia and Europe. Country after country is surpassing the US in the proportion of workers with a high school education. A generation ago, the US produced 30 percent of the world’s college grads; today it’s 14 percent. In the key arena of educating engineers for emerging high-tech fields, the US is falling far behind.

And as more US employers disburse work globally, average American wages have dropped.

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The report can be purchased here: http://www.amazon.com/Tough-Choices-Times-Commission-Workforce/dp/0787995983/sr=8-2/qid=1161802476/ref=sr_1_2/104-8961306-2775167?ie=UTF8&s=books