Tough Choices or Tough Times (eBook)

The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce

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2015 | 2., Revised and Expanded Edition
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-17783-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Tough Choices or Tough Times, the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, shows how the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system in a century. This new revised and expanded version of Tough Choices or Tough Times includes: An updated Introduction A summary of the Commission's proposals Commentaries on the proposals by Denis Doyle, Lawrence Mishel, Michael Petrilli, Diane Ravitch, and Richard Rothstein, with responses from members of the Commission. Tough Choices or Tough Times provides a well-researched analysis of the issues and a compelling set of proposals for changing our system of education.

Autor

National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) (www.ncee.org) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing young people with the world-class skills that will allow them to succeed in a global economy. The National Center engages in policy analysis and development and works collaboratively with others at the local, state, and national levels to advance its proposals in the policy arena.

Inhalt

introduction to the revised edition.

Marc Tucker, President, National Center on Education and the
Economy executive summary.

preface.

prologue.

part i : The Nature of the Challenge Now.

part ii : The Scenario: The Recommendations as They Might
Look from the Vantage Point of an Observer in 2021.

comments.

background papers.

Estimates of the Additional Expense and Savings Associated with
the Commission's Proposed Reforms in Elementary and Secondary
Education.

Teachers and Teaching Policy.

Early Childhood Education.

The Adult Workforce.

commentary on the report.

"Tough Choices": Change the System, or Suffer the
Consequences (Marc S. Tucker).

"Tough Choices": Radical Ideas, Misguided
Assumptions (Diane Ravitch).

Education's "Grand Departure": Defending the
Skills Commission's Vision for the Future (Thomas W.
Payzant, Charles B. Reed).

Making Tough Choices (Marc S. Tucker).

Th e New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce: Old
News or New News? (Denis P. Doyle).

Big Challenges, Bold Ideas (Michael J. Petrilli).

False Alarm (Lawrence Mishel, Richard Rothstein).

The Economic Case for Education Reform (Marc S.
Tucker).

Improper Diagnosis, Reckless Treatment (Lawrence Mishel,
Richard Rothstein).

Reckless and Wildly Exaggerated? We Don't Think So! A
Response to Mishel and Rothstein (Marc S. Tucker).

appendixes.

The Study.

Trustees of the National Center on Education and the
Economy.

Biographies of the Members of the Commission.

Commission Staff and Associates.

Rezensionen

"The book is a must read for anyone involved in the educational process in the United States." (NACADA, Nov 20, 2007)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.6.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Allg. Bildungswesen (K-12) • Bildungswesen • Education • K-12 General • tough choices, tough times, school reform, economic impact, international competition, brain drain, braindrain, global economy, skills of the American workforce, New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, Diane Ravitch, Marc S. Tucker, Charles Knapp, William Brock, Michael Dolan, John Engler, Steve Gunderson, Joel Klein, Marc Morial, Roderick Paige, Richard Reilly, Charles Reed, Henry Schacht, Morton Bahr, Judy Codding, David Driscoll, Paul Elsner, Clifford Janey, Sharon Lynn Kaga, Dal Lawrence
• ISBN-10: 1-119-17783-9 / 1119177839
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-17783-8 / 9781119177838