The Skills Gap
Marc Tucker explains that at the root of the skills gap challenge, there is a failure to provide the kind and quality of basic education that is the foundation of good vocational training. Read Full Post >
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November 20, 2012
November 13, 2012
Automation, Employment, and the Importance of Vocational Education
Returning from a trip abroad, Marc Tucker explains how Australia has successfully automated almost all of the jobs in its biggest industry and how Singapore has developed a basic education system and a vocational education and training system that will sustain its future economy and workforce. Read Full Post >
October 04, 2012
Immigration and Education
Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor in the Carter administration is a distinguished labor economist - and personal friend - who long ago decided that education is perhaps the most important key to broadly shared prosperity in modern industrial economies. So he has spent a lot of his time over the... Read Full Post >
September 18, 2012
Chicago Teachers' Strike: Part II
David Brooks is, in my view, one of the most thoughtful and well-informed columnists writing today. So I was delighted to see that he had written a piece on the Chicago teachers' strike. Delighted, that is, until I saw what had written.In his column, Brooks makes a sharp distinction betw... Read Full Post >
August 09, 2012
Instructional Technology: Villain of the Piece—Or Savior?
Marc Tucker discusses various digital learning tools and their potential to advance student performance. Read Full Post >
July 18, 2012
Manufacturing Jobs: What Will It Really Take to Bring Them Back?
Marc Tucker explains why the low-skill, high-pay jobs that the United States has lost are not coming back and how major education reform is needed in order to educate workers for the manufacturing jobs that will be available. Read Full Post >
July 10, 2012
High School: A New Home for the Liberal Arts Curriculum?
Marc Tucker argues that the liberal arts curriculum, although less popular today than it used to be, still has a place in today's education system. Read Full Post >
June 19, 2012
STEM: Why It Makes No Sense
Marc Tucker argues that in order to increase student skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the United States will have to abandon STEM programs. Read Full Post >
June 06, 2012
A Few Questions for Obama and Romney on Education Policy
Marc Tucker poses some questions on education policy for the presidential candidates. Read Full Post >
April 12, 2012
School-by-School vs. System Reform: Why Business Leaders Need to Go Back to the Future
Marc Tucker explains how business leaders can equitably serve American school children. Read Full Post >
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